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Hong Kong 47: witness admits giving recordings from meeting on unofficial primary to police, says group’s goals went against ‘society’s interests’
- Informant, who cannot be named due to gag order, denies infiltrating opposition camp to gather evidence, insists recording were for private ‘research’
- Source taped private discussion on May 2020 before filing anonymous report to police containing 11 video clips, two audio files later that year
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A police informant in Hong Kong’s largest national security trial has admitted to submitting as evidence unauthorised recordings from an opposition camp meeting on holding an unofficial primary election, arguing their goals ran contrary to “society’s interests”.
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The source, who cannot be named due to a gag order, on Tuesday denied infiltrating the opposition camp to gather evidence and insisted he had taped the private discussions in May 2020 for his own “research”.
But he dodged questions about the nature and result of his purported study, as well as his reasons for assisting authorities after Beijing imposed the national security law at the end of the following month.
The informant’s testimony emerged on the 55th day of a 90-day trial involving 16 of the 47 opposition figures, who are contesting a joint subversion charge stemming from the opposition-led primary in July 2020.
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