CHINA / SOCIETY
By Global Times Published: May 20, 2021 09:16 PM
Secretary for Security of the HKSAR government John Lee Ka-chiu speaks during an interview with Xinhua in south China s Hong Kong on Jan. 28, 2021.Photo:Xinhua
Fugitives who have fled overseas under charges related to national security will be pursued for life under the national security law for Hong Kong, John Lee, the Secretary for Security of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, warned on Wednesday.
In a Cable TV interview, Lee said that the fugitives, who are currently “protected” by foreign governments, will become disposable when they are of no political value, and will be pursued for the rest of their lives by the Hong Kong police.
Face à la répression de la loi sur la sécurité nationale, les Hongkongais se montrent créatifs pour résister
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Ex-Hong Kong Lawmaker, Held Under Security Law, Gets Bail for Father’s Funeral
HONG KONG A Hong Kong court on Friday granted emergency bail to former Democratic Party leader Wu Chi-Wai, detained on charges of breaking the city’s national security law, so he can attend his father’s funeral, the South China Morning Post reported.
Wu is among 47 opposition figures charged with conspiracy to commit subversion by participating in an unofficial, non-binding and independently organised primary vote last year to select candidates for a since-postponed city election.
Authorities said the vote was a “vicious plot” to “overthrow the government,” which falls under a national security law that Beijing imposed on the former British colony in July 2020. Most of the 47 have been denied bail.
Glavin: Hong Kong s democrats are united; rest of the world is in disarray There is no escaping the absurdly draconian National Security Law that Beijing unilaterally imposed last June. It criminalizes anything the Chinese Communist Party deems to constitute subversion, separatism, or collusion with foreign forces.
Author of the article: Terry Glavin
Publishing date: Apr 28, 2021 • 14 hours ago • 5 minute read • Former lawmaker and vice chairman of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements in China Albert Ho leaves West Kowloon court after being given a suspended sentence on April 16, 2021 in Hong Kong. Seven prominent democratic figures, including Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai, former lawmaker and barrister Martin Lee and Margaret Ng, were convicted of unauthorized assembly in relation to a peaceful protest on Aug. 18, 2019. Photo by Anthony Kwan /Getty Images
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Do not split.
Out of the disunity and fractious tensions that followed the failure of the 2014 Umbrella Movement protests, that was the one slogan that kept Hongkongers united in a multi-faceted agitation for democratic reform that brought millions of people into the streets of the former British colony, starting two summers ago.
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Do not split, even if you’re a respectable solicitor and veteran of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy politics and you are obliged to hold your tongue while young militants take to confronting the tear gas and truncheons of the widely-loathed Hong Kong Police Force with mayhem and Molotov cocktails.
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