{"id":46056,"date":"2015-03-18T21:54:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T21:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=46056 "},"modified":"2015-03-18T21:54:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T21:54:00","slug":"46056-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=46056","title":{"rendered":"Family Drama Entangles Hong Kong\u2019s Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>March 18, 2015<\/div><div><\/div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mzzg.org\/UploadCenter\/ArticlePics\/2015\/11\/201531817sino-leung-articleLarge.jpg\" alt=\"201531817sino-leung-articleLarge.jpg (600&#215;399)\" \/><br \/><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>Leung Chai-yan, the daughter of the Hong Kong chief executive, Leung Chun-ying, on Saturday at the amfAR gala for AIDS research.<\/div><div>Anthony Wallace\/Agence France-Presse &#8212; Getty Images<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>Hong Kong&#8217;s leader, Leung Chun-ying, denied his daughter&#8217;s allegations on Tuesday that her mother had abused her and confined her to the family&#8217;s residence.<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>His daughter, Leung Chai-yan, 23, had written on Facebook on Tuesday morning that her mother, Regina Tong Ching-yee, &#8220;literally just pushed me up against a wall&#8221; and &#8220;slapped&#8221; her. She also said that she was denied access to the police and hospital services.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>&#8220;What you see on the outside &#8212; in public &#8212; is not what you see behind closed doors,&#8221; she wrote on her Facebook page, which has since been shut down. &#8220;Would love to record a typical episode of my mother&#8217;s deranged and violent tirades and show the public who she really, really is. She needs help.&#8221;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>#HongKong chief CY Leung says Chai Yan does have some health issues http:\/\/t.co\/sE802F24AP &#8212; Fion Li (@fion_li) 17 Mar 15<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>After initially declining to comment on his daughter&#8217;s claims, which circulated widely online, Mr. Leung, Hong Kong&#8217;s chief executive, called an urgent news conference Tuesday afternoon. He said that Ms. Leung had health problems and was feeling the stress of being a public official&#8217;s daughter.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>&#8220;We definitely will give her whatever medical assistance she needs as and when necessary,&#8221; he said.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Earlier in the day, an ambulance was seen entering and then leaving the Government House compound, the family&#8217;s official residence, apparently without carrying a patient.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Ambulance at Government House after CY Leung&#8217;s daughter posts Facebook messages http:\/\/t.co\/ISAFQtIAqa &#8212; KMK (KO Man Kit) (@kmk_art) 17 Mar 15<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Mr. Leung said he went to check on his daughter in their residence. &#8220;When I went back, the police said no one was injured,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We can use our common sense. How is it possible to imprison a 20-something in Government House against her will?&#8221;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>This is not the first time that Ms. Leung has spoken of personal troubles in public. Last year, she posted a photograph online that appeared to show a slashed wrist, and she has talked about having depression.<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>The latest controversy comes as her father is mired in political gridlock after months of pro-democracy protests last year that have divided Hong Kong society. Joshua Wong, a prominent student leader of the protests, wrote an article online in support of Ms. Leung, criticizing what he called her &#8220;spiteful&#8221; mother, who has criticized Ms. Leung&#8217;s freewheeling night life and compared her to a prostitute.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div><\/div><div><\/div><div><\/div><div><a href=\"http:\/\/cn.nytimes.com\/china\/20150318\/c18leung\/en-us\/\">For detail please visit here<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;div&gt;&amp;#8220;What you see on the outside &amp;#8212; in public &amp;#8212; is not what you see behind closed doors,&amp;#8221; she wrote on her Facebook page, which has since been shut down. &amp;#8220;Would love to record a typical episode of my mother&amp;#8217;s deranged and violent tirades and show the public who she really, really is. She needs help.&amp;#8221;&lt;\/div&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ChinaHumanRights","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}