Hong Kong police place HK$1 million bounties on 6 more activists
Nineteen opposition figures currently on list of people wanted for allegedly violating Beijing-imposed national security law
Hong Kong police have placed bounties of HK$1 million (US$128,690) on six more activists, including a former convenor of a now disbanded group calling for the city’s independence, accused of contravening the national security law.
Nineteen opposition figures are now on the list of people wanted for allegedly violating the Beijing-imposed law.
The six newly added activists include political commentator Chung Kim-wah, 64, and Joseph Tay, a 62-year-old former actor and founder of Canada-based NGO Hongkonger Station, which claims to provide uncensored information.
The others were: Tony Chung Hon-lam, 23, former convenor of Studentlocalism; Carmen Lau Ka-man, 29, a former district councillor and now an advocacy associate at the Hong Kong Democracy Council; Victor Ho Leung-mau, 69, a YouTuber; and Chloe Cheung Hei-ching, 19, from the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation.
Separately, the government issued a gazette on Tuesday announcing that Secretary for Security Chris Tang Ping-keung had revoked the passports of seven activists who had fled Hong Kong, including Ted Hui Chi-fung, and barred anyone from funding them, in the second such instance under the city’s domestic security law.
“The targets of this crackdown are those who have been wanted for a long time, have absconded overseas and are determined to continue endangering our national security through various means,” Tang said.
