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Introduction By deciding to bring charges against activist Leung Kwok-hung and two of his group, the government and the prosecution authority has created the policy of selective prosecution. The fact remains that since the handover, more than 300 demonstrations had been held without legal notification to authority, and that none of those people was prosecuted, barring abnormal exceptions. SCMP also has drawn attention to other apparent breaches of the Public Order Ordinance, but none of them have provoked legal action. Yet Leung Kwok-hung and two of his group were prosecuted, let alone convicted. One might wonder why. After the magistrate¡¦s verdict, the Secretary for Justice, Elsie Leung, and the Director of Public Prosecution, Grenville Cross, SC, were presented with the criticism of selective prosecution. The answer was that the Department of Justice was alerted to prosecution by the Legislative Council debate last year, in which the majority upheld the Ordinance. Therefore it is not absurd to assume that the prosecution was fueled by political pressure. Although that notion was denied, this incident has undoubtedly diminished public confidence in the prosecution system. In this paper, we will examine the current