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HK prosecutors seek tougher penalty for ex-official for killing kitten
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HONG Kong prosecutors are demanding a heavier sentence for a former government official from China’s mainland who strangled a stray cat to death, Hong Kong-based Ming Pao newspaper reported.
The 48-year-old man, identified as An Haizhou, was given a jail term of three months for animal cruelty on Friday. The position he once held in the mainland was not reported.
An got drunk and was walking around an amusement park in Tsuen Wan in the wee hours of May 30, the newspaper reported. He put a nylon rope around a kitten’s neck, and when the kitten tried to get away, he pulled it back and struck it in the head, prosecutors said. The kitten died in agony, they said.
The region’s Department of Justice appealed for a review, said barrister Albert W.H. Luk. A hearing will be scheduled, the newspaper reported.
David Wong Kai-yan, founder of Animal Earth, a Hong Kong-based animal rights group, described An’s act as “murder” and called the sentence a “humiliation” of justice.
Effective animal welfare laws are lacking in Chinese mainland, though draft regulations have been discussed. Both Hong Kong and Taiwan have laws against cruelty to animals, but experts say these should be tougher.
Animal activists have called for better laws to protect animals and penalize animal cruelty for years after stories of cats and dogs being stepped on, having their eyeballs dug out or their cut ears cut off.
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