westminster, london, 2020. simon cheng thinks he is being followed. two weeks later, simon thinks he is being followed again. around the same time, receives an anonymous e mail. it s title chinese agents will find you and bring you back. that is a threat and i worry about my personal safety and others around me. about my personal safety and others around me. simon cheng is one of the others around me. simon cheng is one of the leading others around me. simon cheng is one of the leading figures - is one of the leading figures in the hong kong democracy movement. fouryears in the hong kong democracy movement. four years ago he was working in the british consulate and was asked to monitor escalating protests. weeks later he vanished during a consulate trip to mainland china. police says he was accused of soliciting prostitution. they framed me to simon says he was accused of being produced by and then tortured. he says he was restrained in a device known as a tiger chair.
to a massage centre to accuse him of soliciting prostitution. they framed me up to say i solicited prostitutes. simon says he was accused of being a british spy, then tortured. he says he was restrained in a device known as a tiger chair. ..seen here in videos from chinese social media. when simon was released, he fled to the uk and has now been granted asylum. in london, he set up an organisation to help others who ve left hong kong. today, his house is on a special police protection register and he s constantly looking over his shoulder. the chinese embassy in london didn t answer panorama s questions about simon cheng. my name isjohn culver. i was an analyst specialising on east asia for the central intelligence agency. it s gotten more like classic cold war. for decades, chinese intelligence was fairly casual, not very aggressive, and that s changed progressively over 20 years and especially over the last decade. so, we re seeing more what i would call classic spycraft. c
two weeks later, simon thinks he s being followed again. around the same time, simon receives an anonymous e mail. its title chinese agents will find you and bring you back. simon cheng is one of the leading figures in the hong kong democracy movement. four years ago, he was working at the british consulate and was asked to monitor escalating protests. weeks later, he vanished during a consulate trip to mainland china. simon says the police used his visit to a massage centre to accuse him of soliciting prostitution. they framed me up to say i solicited prostitutes. simon says he was accused of being a british spy, then tortured. he says he was restrained in a device known as a tiger chair. ..seen here in videos from chinese social media. when simon was released, he fled to the uk and has now been granted asylum. in london, he set up an organisation to help others who ve left hong kong. today, his house is on a special police protection register and he s constantly looking
battlefield, dundas, and they tried to be use in darkness between the brothers and ours brothers in arms. donbas. following the address, putin held a meeting with his security officials, including defence minister sergei shoigu. putin made no mention of wagner boss yevgeny prigozhin by name. prigozhin, who was thought to be in belarus but whose whereabouts are currently unknown, is claiming the rebellion wasn t meant to overthrow the russian government. our correspondent sarah rainsford has more on the rebellion s aftermath from warsaw. this is yevgeny prigozhin s attempt to answer some questions but it leaves a lot of questions unanswered. we still don t know where he is. we don t know if he is in belarus as had been suggested over the weekend but he did leave a bit of a hint because he said it was alexander lukashenko, the president of belarus, who had intervened to resolve the crisis over the weekend. as to what caused that crisis, mr prigozhin was trying to make ver
at the university of copenhagen. thinking forjoining us. do you think that this was in mr bogosian words, it wasn t a mutiny but a protest about what was being threatened to be done for the wagner group? i threatened to be done for the wagner arou - ? ~ . threatened to be done for the wagner i rou . ? ~ ., , group? i think what we re seeing here is a prime group? i think what we re seeing here is a prime example - group? i think what we re seeing here is a prime example of- group? i think what we re seeing here is a prime example of what| here is a prime example of what happens when you outsource the use of force to unregulated actors the wagner group has been around for a number of years. it came out of the conflict in syria and has been active in many armed conflicts around the world and has been allowed to ask with the support the tacit support of the russian government and we have seen the fact that it has engaged in as trustees in many different countries includin