Hong Kong police are offering bounties worth $HK1 million (AU$192,000) for information about eight activists who fled Beijing’s security crackdown on the territory for Australia, Britain and the US.
Hong Kong police are offering bounties worth $HK1 million for information about eight activists who fled Beijing’s security crackdown on the territory for Australia, Britain and the US.
The other activists named by Hong Kong police and who are based in the UK and US include other exiled politicians Nathan Law and Dennis Kwok, activists Finn Lau, Anna Kwok, and Elmer Yuan, and unionist Mung Siu-tat. “The fugitives should not have any delusion that they could evade their legal liabilities by absconding from Hong Kong.”“We have consistently expressed concerns about the broad application of the National Security Law to arrest or pressure pro-democracy figures and civil society,” Wong said.
Among its targets were journalists, lawyers democracy activists and members of Hong Kong’s Legislative Council.Credit:Law was the Council’s youngest-ever member. He fled the repression and successfully sought asylum in Britain.“I hope that all friends on the list are well, and I ask Hongkongers not to cooperate with any related pursuit or bounty actions.Lau is in the UK along with Law and the remaining four are in the United States.
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