As part of its major crackdown on activists in recent years, Hong Kong’s Deputy Commissioner of Police (National Security) announced on Tuesday (Dec 22) that wanted notices had been issued against “six anti-China disruptors who have fled overseas”.
The National Security Department of the police force also said $1 million Hong Kong dollars (approximately $130,000) will be rewarded for information leading to their arrest. Several national security crimes, such as secession, sedition and collusion with foreign forces, are cited as grounds for warrants.
Such notices have been issued in the past following protests in 2019-20 against the increasing control of the mainland Chinese government over Hong Kong’s political system. The names of the 6 people included in the latest warrant range from political activists to young students who have been abroad for the past few decades.
In 2021, he was sentenced under Hong Kong’s 2020 National Security Law, which criminalized calls for the city’s secession from China. At that time he The youngest person to be sentenced Under this for a period of about three years. After his release in 2023, he defied a supervision order and fled to Hong Kong to seek asylum in the UK.
Later he explained BBC that he had been thrown into a situation which was “an even greater and more dangerous prison” than the one he had left. The police also asked him to report the whereabouts of other pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong.
told Radio Free Asia In an interview this year, she said she left the city in 2021 amid “a crackdown on political opposition and dissent”.
Over time, she said, “we’re seeing more Hong Kong communities and organizations spring up in the UK, and everyone is finding their role, finding different things to work on.”
What is remarkable is that until 1997, Britain had control over Hong Kong for 99 years. The Sino-British Joint Declaration of 1984, It ceded the city to China on the condition that it maintain its economic and political autonomy for the next 50 years (from 1997 to 2047). These historical ties have led many Hong Kongers to return to the UK for asylum and immigration.
Chloe left Hong Kong at the age of 15. “Instead of studying at university after graduation, she devoted her youth to the movement” and campaigned for political prisoners in Hong Kong, it added. Cheung is also involved in forming an activist group in Leeds, UK.
A short profile from Oxford University notes: “Dr Kim Wah Chung is a retired academic who has been teaching and researching in Hong Kong for over 30 years before his retirement in 2020. He then became Deputy CEO for Hong Kong. Public Opinion Research Institute He moved to Britain two years ago, ‘in exile’ some say, in late April 2022. Extensive knowledge of public administration, social policies, social welfare and social development in Hong Kong and China. He gave a speech at the university in 2024.
According to South China Morning PostChung was accused of “repeatedly advocating city independence on social media platforms between May and June and calling for sanctions against Beijing and Hong Kong between 2020 and 2023”.
According to his LinkedIn profile, as of 2021 his radio program is also broadcast daily nationwide “A total of 81,680 people identified “Hong Konger” as their ethnic origin, while 213,855 people listed their place of birth as Hong Kong. He is now from the Conservative Party He is campaigning to become a candidate in the upcoming Canadian elections.
SCMP It is reported that “he was accused of inciting secession and colluding with foreign forces after posting videos calling for international sanctions on social media platforms through his channel between July 2020 and June this year.”
According to the Canadian Media Organization Global NewsHo criticized China’s influence in Hong Kong’s electoral process, saying the goal was to establish a parliament that “can truly reflect the will of the Hong Kong people”.
In 2014, Students led the movement China has opposed efforts to change the voting system in Hong Kong. Officials said they would first screen candidates who could contest the polls. Finally, the proposal was not implemented.
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