Hong Kong police accused five activists based overseas of breaching a harsh national security law imposed by Beijing and offered rewards of 1 million dollars for information leading to each of their arrests.
Responding to the Hong Kong police placing bounties of HK$1m (US$128,000) on five exiled pro-democracy activists, as well as arresting in Hong Kong four persons accused of assisting exiled activists targeted in a previous round of bounties, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for Greater China, Sarah Brooks said: “This is further confirmation that the Hong Kong authorities’ systematic dismantling of human rights has officially gone global. The brazen tactic of placing ‘Wild
GENEVA (9 October 2023) – UN experts today expressed serious concern about the first mass trial of 47 people underway since February 2023 under the National Security Legislation (NSL) of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) and the issuance .