commentary in the newspaper "ming pao" also remarked on the widespread outrage about the perceived selective application of legal principles – that a person charged with an apparently minor offence being denied bail whilst two others, unnamed, with allegedly heavier involvement in the spread of the photographs were allowed out on bail. a commentary in "apple daily" decried the "clear intimidation of netizens" by the police, and for arresting people without bringing the alleged main source and victim (chen) for interrogation.