Hong Kong Four suspects charged over an alleged bomb plot in Hong Kong were denied bail Wednesday in a case which has been met with scepticism by pro-democracy campaigners. Police made the arrests last month days before lawmakers voted on a controversial Beijing-backed political
Hong Kong
Four suspects charged over an alleged bomb plot in Hong Kong were denied bail Wednesday in a case which has been met with scepticism by pro-democracy campaigners.
Police made the arrests last month days before lawmakers voted on a controversial Beijing-backed political reform package which had sparked mass street rallies at the end of last year.
Five men and one woman, aged 21 to 34, have been charged with conspiracy to cause an explosion after police said they found explosive chemicals during a raid.
Four of the five men applied for bail but were denied. The fifth man also remains in custody. The woman had already been released on bail.
The five men have been held in custody for more than a month since their arrests mid-June.
"Why did you appear at a place where explosives were being tested? Why did you enter the location?" questioned magistrate Don So as he denied the bail applications.
"Only you were found at the scene," he added.
Police have said they seized chemicals which could be used to make explosives in the June raid and that one of those arrested admitted to being part of a "radical local group".
