Hong Kong issues arrest warrants for 19 activists based overseas | Hong Kong
Hong Kong’s National Security Police issued an arrest warrant for 19 activists abroad and accused them of destruction within a strict National Security Law and pointed to the largest gang.
They are accused of organizing or participating in the Hong Kong Parliament, a pro -democracy group, in which the authorities at the Asian Finance Center said they aimed to disrupt the state power in accordance with the law imposed in 2020 after the pro -democracy protests in 2019.
The activists are accused of starting a referendum in the unofficial Hong Kong Parliament group, which the authorities say that they say they aim to determine their own destiny and prepare the Hong Kong Constitution.
Police said that the organization is trying to overthrow the Chinese and Hong Kong governments illegally and that more arrests could follow.
Businessman Elmer Yuen, commentator Victor Ho and activists Johnny Fok and Tony Choi. Four of these are subject to previous arrest orders, each of which carried the $ 1m Hong Kong (£ 95,000) award.
Among the remaining 15 people, they are said to have been organized or ran in the elections and swore as members of parliament.
Feng Chongyi, a Chinese education professor listed at the University of Technology at Sydney, decided as an award -winning “ridiculous” against him.
Sydney has the power, they have the effect abroad, they want to control everything abroad, ”herald said.
Britain’s external and home secretaries condemned the movement in a joint statement, describing arrests as “another example of transnational pressure ve and said that Hong Kong had damaged international reputation.
“[The UK] It will not tolerate the attempts of foreign governments to force, intimidate, harass or harm abroad. ”
On the other hand, the Chinese Embassy in the UK said that the British government’s statements were “gross intervention in China’s internal affairs and that the law in Hong Kong was the superiority of law.
“China urged England to abandon the colonial mentality and stop intervening in Hong Kong affairs… Stop protecting criminals.”
Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong strongly objected to the arrest orders. “Freedom of expression and assembly is necessary for our democracy,” he said.
“We have continuously expressed our strong objections to China and Hong Kong on the broad and extraterrestrial implementation of Hong Kong’s national security legislation and we will continue to do so.”
In 1997, the former British colony returned to Chinese administration with a high degree of autonomy guarantee, including freedom of expression under the formula of a single country, two systems ”.
Critics of the National Security Law, the government says that it uses it to oppose it. China and Hong Kong officials, in 2019, sometimes anti -government and anti -Chinese protests by swinging for months after swinging for months to regain the stability of the law, he said.
The police reiterated that national security crimes were serious crimes with unusual access and urged the desired individuals to return to Hong Kong and surrender.
“Criminals may be entitled to violate the crime, to surrender themselves, to confess their crimes correctly or to solve other cases, they may be entitled to receive reduced penalties,” he said.
Police also said that helping, supporting or financing others to join the Hong Kong Parliament group could be a criminal offense.
