HK$1m rewards target people accused of national security crimes who fled after pro-democracy protests

Summary

Hong Kong police issued HK$1m ($128,000 USD) bounties for six overseas pro-democracy activists accused of national security crimes, including inciting secession and collusion with foreign forces.

Authorities also plan to cancel the passports of seven others, such as ex-lawmakers Ted Hui and Dennis Kwok.

This follows Beijing’s 2020 national security law, which quashed political dissent after the 2019 protests.

Western governments criticized the bounties, which are largely symbolic as extradition is unlikely.

Human Rights Watch called the move an act of intimidation, urging countries like the UK and Canada to respond.

  • MushuChupacabra@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    5 days ago

    This is in keeping with the Chinese government’s mandate of never letting Chinese citizens ever experience basic freedoms.

    That’s only for non-chinese people.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      5 days ago

      On one hand, I’m tempted to crosspost it to those and lemmygrad now I’m on an instance defederated from either none of them or only grad.

      On the other hand, that would be fun for a couple seconds (minutes if I’m lucky) and then all kinds of annoying for hours if not days lol, depending on how ban happy admins and mods are at the time 🤷

      • Eldritch@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        5 days ago

        Of the three major ML servers. Lemmy.ml seems to be the only one it’s been posted to so far. With one comment. The others all seem to be ignoring it for now. Which is understandable as it exposes a lot of hypocrisy. Honestly just by posting it and saying nothing you might be able to rile them up.

        • mercphilby@discuss.onlineEnglish
          3·
          5 days ago

          I posted it there. And yeah, it’s all crickets because they can’t talk about it or their families will be abducted. But they can’t remove it because that would be proving it right. So, like all paid actors… they pretend it’s not happening.