Six months' imprisonment is over, and the rain is gone for three years.

On 12 October 2023, the six-month sentence of Zeng Yuen in Hong Kong was completed. Three years later, her name was still being repeated, but it was impossible to tell the public where she was today.

According to the source,The record of the Network on 12 OctoberThe Hong Kong Chinese University of Law doctorate was deported by the Hong Kong Government to mainland China after completing his sentence and his whereabouts are unknown. Her mother also lost contact with the outside world upon her return to the mainland on 20 October

1. For a family, the deadline for the judgement has passed without waiting for the end.

Information kept by the Voice of FreedomThe action that she had taken before she disappeared: in December 2022, she lifted white paper in Victoria Park; On the eve of June and April 2023, she planned to present the "Key of the Nation" straight. The Network documented that she had been arrested on 2 June prior to the operation and subsequently sentenced for incitement. The young people in the public image had stood in public space to express their views, and since then they had to look for her in the order of arrest, sentencing and deportation.

This time line has a fracture that cannot be filled by the word “legal”. The Hong Kong authorities can indicate when the sentence is imposed, when the sentence is served and when the person is removed from the country, but they cannot substitute for the person ' s surrender. The security and freedom of a person remains a specific public responsibility after the completion of the correctional process.

The two administrative sets of procedures are linked here, but no continuous information chain is visible. The first set of procedures sent her away, and the latter disappeared from the public view. The most profound layer of political control is precisely what one can do and by whom one can be left out of the public domain.

The damage caused by the failure is not just personal. The mother also lost contact and those who might have described the situation of her daughter also withdrew from public records. Human rights cases are thus often caught in a cruel cycle: the more they are required to explain what happened, the more likely they are to be unable to speak; The less the coverage, the more easy it is to see victims as old stories that have been turned over.

The meaning of the third anniversary of the rain was not another anniversary, but rather the sentence, which would have been the number of the State ' s punitive borders, which had failed to bring her a visible return. The inclusion of the 64th anniversary in the criminal punishment has reduced public expression; The long absence of a trace after the completion of the sentence has pushed people into a more difficult space of power to pursue.

12 October 2023 should have been the date on which she was to leave her life in prison. Today, this date is the last-designable coordinates from the outside world.