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Hong Kong Woman Jailed for Breast Assault, Protesters Don Bras in Support

© REUTERS / Liau Chung-renProtesters wear bras over their shirts during a demonstration in support of local female protester Ng Lai-ying, outside the police headquarters in Hong Kong, China August 2, 2015
Protesters wear bras over their shirts during a demonstration in support of local female protester Ng Lai-ying, outside the police headquarters in Hong Kong, China August 2, 2015 - Sputnik International
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Dozens of Hong Kong protesters wearing bras gathered on Sunday after a woman was sentenced to three and a half months in prison for assaulting a police officer… with her breast.

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The story has prompted public outrage over the HK court's decision on Thursday to put 30-year-old Ng Lai-ying in jail for pushing her breast against Chief Inspector Chan Ka-po during a March protest against mainland Chinese cross-border traders.

Around 150 people have poured onto the streets for the "breast walk" protest outside police headquarters in Wan Chai district, wearing bras over their tops.
"We better watch out as one day police might accuse us of attacking with our penises or butts," a topless male activist with a bra on told the crowd.

The crowd shouted out "Breasts are not weapons —give back our breast freedom" while blaming the police for their actions.

The woman was found guilty of pressing her breast against a cop, thereby "assaulting a police officer", during a dispute which pitted locals from Hong Kong against Chinese mainlanders.

"The ruling is absurd. How can breasts be a weapon? We are angry but we also fear that this precedent exploits women's rights to take part in protests," Ng Cheuk-ling, an activist from the Hong Kong Women's Coalition on Equal Opportunities, told AFP.

She claimed the police officer intended to stop her from grabbing her bag but instead his hand landed on her breast and she accused him of indecent assault, whereas he accused her of assaulting him with her breast.

The Tuen Mun court held that the woman had tried to damage the policeman's reputation and sentenced her in prison for 105 days.

She had used "her female identity to trump up the allegation that the officer had molested" her, the South China Morning Post quoted him as saying.

A massive inrush of Chinese tourists to Hong Kong led to collisions with police early this year, when locals complained that visitors had caused their shop rents and prices to grow.

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