Hong Kong police summon fugitive Chung Kim-wah’s siblings for questioning
A leading pollster and the wife and son of Chung Kim-wah, who moved to the UK in 2022, were also asked to help with an investigation earlier this month
National security police have summoned the siblings of a Hong Kong fugitive to assist in an investigation after interrogating his wife and son, as well as a leading pollster.
A source said on Wednesday the three younger siblings of Chung Kim-wah, an outspoken commentator and former deputy executive director of the Hong Kong Public Opinion Research Institute, were asked to help with the investigation.
The insider said Chung’s brother would visit the Tsuen Wan district police station, while the sister and youngest brother would head to the Central Police District Headquarters and the Castle Peak division’s station, respectively.
Chung, who moved to Britain in 2022, was one of the six wanted overseas-based activists named by police last month for allegedly contravening the national security law.
He was accused of repeatedly advocating for the city’s independence on social media between May and June last year, as well as calling for sanctions against Beijing and Hong Kong from 2020 to 2023.
On Wednesday, a spokesman for Beijing’s foreign ministry arm in Hong Kong hit out at British Foreign Secretary David Lammy and Minister for the Indo-Pacific Catherine West for meeting four fugitives, including Chung.
The spokesman expressed “strong dissatisfaction and opposition” to the pair for “grossly interfering” in the internal affairs of Hong Kong and the country, as well as for “smearing the rule of law”.
Carmen Lau Ka-man, a former district councillor and now an advocacy associate at the Hong Kong Democracy Council, said on Tuesday that she and three other wanted activists, one of whom was Chung, had met the two UK officials on January 15.
