SCMP:
The leader of an ethnic minority concern group has been arrested on suspicion of indecent assault and producing child pornography.
Police received two reports against James Lung Wai-man, 44, on Wednesday and Friday, saying he had conducted unnecessary intimate behaviour with a child on separate occasions.
Lung, who chairs the group Southern Democratic Alliance, which was founded in 2004 with a mission to unite South Asians with Hong Kong locals, was arrested in Tsuen Wan at about 8am on Friday.
Officers escorted him to search his office in Wing Lee Industrial Building on Tong Mi Road, Mong Kok on Friday night.
Two computers and a toilet seat were among the items seized by police.
Michelle Tam Chi-yun, executive director of End Child Sexual Abuse Foundation, said the group was very concerned after receiving a number of complaints against Lung over the past few days about scores of pictures of him posing with girls in public and private settings posted on his Facebook and Instagram.
The pictures were no longer public.
Some of the pictures had been downloaded and circulated online. Some showed Lung carrying a girl in his arms, while others showed a girl sitting on his lap, facing him.
Several images showed a girl lying down in what seemed a private setting with Lung lying behind her.
Tam said the physical contact in the pictures was not necessary and could lead to association with child pornography and paedophilia.
“Any groups dedicated to serve children should provide a safe environment for them, not to hurt them,” Tam said.
She said although the children appeared to be willingly photographed that did not mean the images were acceptable because generally they were not able to distinguish right from wrong and had no knowledge about child pornography and paedophilia.
Any groups dedicated to serve children should provide a safe environment for them, not to hurt them.
Kowloon West regional crime unit was investigating.
Lung ran in the 2008 Legislative Council election in the Kowloon West constituency but his team was defeated.