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Carina Lau photos lead to jail time

Before the Edison Chen scandal, there was the Carina Lau scandal. Carina Lau was kidnapped by gangsters in 1990, possibly raped, and photos of the indecent were published in a magazine in 2002. This caused a bunch of outrage and lead to investigations. So just like the Edison Chen leaker is going to jail, now the Lau photo publisher is going to jail as well.

crienglish.com

The former chief editor of a Hong Kong-based magazine has been sentenced to five months in prison for publishing a topless photo of a kidnapped actress seven years ago.

The picture of Carina Lau appeared on the cover of East Week on October 30, 2002, after she was kidnapped in 1990. She was released unharmed, and the reason for the abduction has never been revealed. Media reports speculated it may have been done by mobsters who were angry at her.

The defendant, Mong Hon-Ming, 52, earlier received a six-month suspended sentence after he pleaded guilty last December.

But the Court of Appeal in Hong Kong ruled on Tuesday that the original magistrate had been misled and the sentence was too lenient.

When East Week published the photo, the eyes and breasts of the actress were pixilated. But Lau admitted she was the person in the image, sparking outrage in Hong Kong. Actor Jackie Chan vowed to organize a boycott of East Week, and other Hong Kong actors and entertainers also condemned the magazine.

A protest a month later by more than 500 leading Hong Kong celebrities – including Jackie Chan, the late Leslie Cheung and Anita Mui – demanded that the media show greater respect for people’s privacy.

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Carina Lau speaks about her rape incident

No mention in the article of rumors about how Albert Yeung is suspected of being behind this, or even mention of rape at all. It looks like Carina Lau is claiming she wasn’t raped now, just kidnapped, stripped, and photographed. Which is odd, because supposed videos of the rape have surfaced on the internet. I am not going to watch to see if that’s her. Someone else can do that job. She claims to not hold a grudge against the men, but no mention on if she holds a grudge against the masterminds. This article had a lot of misspellings, so I corrected a few.

Carina Lau triad photos cover

The Straits Times/Asia News Network

Gangsters Made Me Pose In the Nude, Says HK Actress

For 18 long years, Hong Kong actress Carina Lau kept mum about her humiliating ordeal at the hands of triad members.

But now, with her impending marriage to long-time actor boyfriend Tony Leung, Carina, 43, has finally broken her silence.

Back in April 1990, the budding actress was bundled off into a car, blindfolded and forcibly photographed nude by triad members.

The incident came to light years later, in 2002, reported The New Paper yesterday. That was when Hong Kong’s East Week magazine published a topless photograph of her being held against her will on its front cover.

While her eyes were masked, speculation was rampant that the actress involved was Carina. She kept mum for a few weeks after its publication and later admitted she was indeed the actress in the photographs.

In her first candid interview since the photos were leaked, she told Hong Kong newspaper Nanfang Doushibao that she had stepped on some triad members’ toes by refusing to act in a movie that they were involved with. At that time, there was a lot of triad involvement and investment in the Hong Kong film industry, she said.

“Because I didn’t agree to filming the movie, they decide to punish me by doing this,” she added.

The New Paper said that on the morning of April 25, 1990, she was driving home when she realized that another car was tailing her. After she turned into a car park, a number of big-sized men opened her door and grabbed her from the car.

“They dragged me into a car, covered both my eyes,” recounted Carina. “I was terrified – I thought they were going to kill me and dump my body in a deserted field.”

Even though the men made her pose nude, she insisted that they did not take advantage of her.

“I don’t hate those four men who held me. They were just following orders. They never molested me, so I’m grateful to them for that.”

Carina was released about two hours later. She made a police report, but the culprits were never caught.

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