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Lai Tung-kwok
Lai Tung-kwok
Hong Kong's Secretary for Security, Lai Tung-kwok, sparked outrage from women's groups over comments he made on May 14, 2012, when announcing a sharp rise in the number of rapes in the first quarter of that year. "Some of these cases also involved the victims being raped after drinking quite a lot of alcohol. So I would appeal that young ladies should not drink too much,' he said as he reported the government's Fight Crime Committee statistics.
Born
12 Nov 1951
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Politics
Job Title
Former Secretary of Security, Hong Kong SAR
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