Hong Kong dissidents who have fled to the UK have told how of being followed and harassed by suspected pro-Beijing informants and activists recruited to monitor them 🔴 Joe Duggan and Richard_AHolmes report:
which purports to apply overseas and has been used to try and crush dissent in Hong Kong, criminalises any act Beijing deems as secession, subversion, terrorism or collusion with foreign or external forces.
In 2021, the Metropolitan Police launched an investigation after a £10,000 bounty was offered on WeChat for the addresses of Mr Cheng, a former worker at the British consulate in Hong Kong, and Nathan Law, another dissident. Asked if pro-Chinese Communist Party informants were harassing or spying on Hong Kong refugees in the UK, a UK intelligence source told“I think it is likely nearly all State sponsored. State surveillance often includes harassment. Being pushed over in the street, burglary, honey traps, vandalism of your home….it’s the same playbook.”
Germany-based Ray Wong, co-founder of NGO Freedom for Hong Kong, said he was followed by a suspected informant in London while meeting Mr Cheng in the summer of 2020. “So at the end, we were pretty sure that they are monitoring us, listening to us and sort of sending a message that big brother is watching us.”
“They also use the whole young party member movement to promote the Chinese line and I know plenty of unis are suspected of quietly suppressing certain teaching / academics for fear of losing Chinese students and money.”Last year, Benedict Rogers, co-founder of human rights group Hong Kong Watch, received a letter from the Hong Kong police warning he had violated the National Security Law and could face three years to life in prison.
“Obviously, I don’t advertise my home address, but somehow, someone had found it out. My mother received letters telling her to tell me to stop doing what I’m doing,” he said. He believes whoever sent the letters was a “low level” paid operative acting on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party. Another prominent activist, Finn Lau, a leader of the Hong Kong protest movement who came to the UK in 2020, said he was badly beaten by three masked men in June that year in London.
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