HK National Security Police Accuses Veteran Pro-democracy NGO as "Agent of Foreign Power"
On August 25, 2021 in Hong Kong, the National Security Police appeared at the barrister's office of #ChowHangTung, the vice-president of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China. The police cited Article 43 of the National Security Law and demanded Chow to hand over "information about the Alliance" including meeting records since 2014.
The Alliance is a pro-demoncracy charity group established in Hong Kong, as a response to the 1989 June 4th Tiananman Massacre by the Chinese Communist Party that year. The Alliance has been organizing the June 4 candlelight vigil at Hong Kong's Victoria Park since 1990.
According to Chow, the police in the letter claimed that the Alliance is "an agent of foreign power". The police specifically asked for information regarding the Alliance's potential exchanges with "political parties outside the PRC or Taiwan"; Mark Simon, the former aide of Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai; and humanitarian lawyers' group.
Chow said, "The whole matter is clearly an abuse of the national security law to suppress civil society."
Chow also said other core members of the Alliance have received similar demand from the police.
Source: Stand News; RTHK #Aug25
https://thestandnews.page.link/ttbhffLt5CmDSrNj6
#PoliticalProsecution #NationalSecurityLaw #Alliance #June4Massacre #WhiteTerror
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On August 25, 2021 in Hong Kong, the National Security Police appeared at the barrister's office of #ChowHangTung, the vice-president of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China. The police cited Article 43 of the National Security Law and demanded Chow to hand over "information about the Alliance" including meeting records since 2014.
The Alliance is a pro-demoncracy charity group established in Hong Kong, as a response to the 1989 June 4th Tiananman Massacre by the Chinese Communist Party that year. The Alliance has been organizing the June 4 candlelight vigil at Hong Kong's Victoria Park since 1990.
According to Chow, the police in the letter claimed that the Alliance is "an agent of foreign power". The police specifically asked for information regarding the Alliance's potential exchanges with "political parties outside the PRC or Taiwan"; Mark Simon, the former aide of Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai; and humanitarian lawyers' group.
Chow said, "The whole matter is clearly an abuse of the national security law to suppress civil society."
Chow also said other core members of the Alliance have received similar demand from the police.
Source: Stand News; RTHK #Aug25
https://thestandnews.page.link/ttbhffLt5CmDSrNj6
#PoliticalProsecution #NationalSecurityLaw #Alliance #June4Massacre #WhiteTerror
#ForeignPower
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