Hong Kong summons British envoy after UK grants asylum to ‘wanted’ democracy activist Tony Chung
The Hong Kong government called the British and Australian ambassadors after both countries gave asylum in two -prominent pro -democracy activities.
Britain gave Tony Chung, one of the youngest activists of Hong Kong this weekend this weekend, and $ 1 million (£ 94.900 million) from the city police, while former legislator Ted Hui took refuge in Australia. Both activists fled the Asian Financial Center, which feared the persecution within the scope of the Draconian National Security Law.
Hong Kong accused the two countries of “guilty ve and called on the Australian Consul General Gareth Williams and British ambassador Brian Davidson to protest his own asylum decisions.
24 -year -old Tony Chung announced that the British government on social media has resided in refugee and five years in the UK. Mr. Chung was arrested and in 2019, he was sentenced to imprisonment twice after participating in pro -democracy protests in Hong Kong.
He violated an audit order and fled to England to request asylum due to continuous examination at the Asian Finance Center and said that he had taken it under “tremendous stress”.
“After a while for more than a year, I can finally try to start a new life,” Mr. Chung wrote on Facebook. He published a photo of a letter from home to a refugee status and a letter confirming his residence in the country.
“This means that we accept that you have fear of persecution well -established and therefore we will not be able to return to your country …”
“There are many possibilities of future life, but such an area brings me fear – fear of planning the future,” he said.
“I was very happy when I first came to England. For more than three years, I am happy to be able to talk about Hong Kong again.
“I didn’t let me rest because I felt that I couldn’t waste the free speech area.
In November 2021, Mr. Chung was sentenced to 43 months in prison on charges of separation and money laundering. Previously, as a young man, he was sentenced to four months in prison after he was found guilty of insulting the Chinese national flag.
Mr. Chung announced his asylum approval in the UK only one day after saying that Ted Hui took refuge in Australia.
Hui, a former Hong Kong parliament, fled the city four years ago and first came to Europe in December 2020. In March 2021, he became the first Hong Kong politician who was given a special travel exemption during Coronavirus restrictions to enter Australia.
In 2022, Mr. Hui was sentenced to Hong Kong on charges of participating in a pro -democracy protest and was sentenced to three and a half years of prison.
On Saturday, Mr. Hui said, “Australia received official notification from the Ministry of Interior of Australia that asylum was given in Australia”.
Hong Kong’s chief secretary Eric Chan said that the city is “against any country that contains criminals in any way and is absolutely satisfied with any behavior that has criminals under any excuse.”
“[S]UCH allows certain individuals or organizations to be immune to legal consequences for their illegal actions, which is not different from giving a special privilege to violate the law. ”
Mr. Chan told the ambassadors that the arrest orders were “completely right, necessary and legitimate”. “There is no problem of political persecution in Hong Kong,” the government spokesman said. Hong Kong Free Post.
The Chinese government said that Mr. Hui is “an anti -Chinese agitator who disrupts Hong Kong’s order and is legally requested by Hong Kong police.”
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Mao Ning called on Australia to respect China’s sovereignty and Hong Kong’s rule of law. When he was asked about Hui’s case, he did not directly name Australia, but he asked the country to “stop intervening in any way to Hong Kong and China’s internal affairs.” Global Times.
He left the city for dozens of Hong Kong activist, lawyers and human rights defenders, England, Canada and Australia, and escaped from arrest and further persecution within the scope of the comprehensive national security law imposed on a popular protest movement by Beijing in 2020.
