Former UK Consulate employee tortured in mainland China. Claimed Hong Kongers detained by Chinese secret police.
“I saw a bunch of Hong Kong people getting arrested and interrogated. I heard someone speak in Cantonese saying: 'Raise your hands up - you raised the flags in the protest didn’t you?'”
This is the recollection of Simon Cheng, a Hong Kong citizen arrested in Hong Kong and sent back to mainland China. Cheng was a trade and investment officer at the British Consulate in Hong Kong. In June this year, Cheng became one of the staff that volunteered for an additional role offered by the British Consulate to collect information about the status of the Hong Kong protests. On 8 August 2019, as he returned from a business conference in Shenzhen, China, he was arrested by Chinese authorities on a high-speed rail link after it crossed the border into Hong Kong. He was sent back to Shenzhen and put on administrative detention by the Chinese police for 15 days on the charge of prostitute solicitation. Cheng was released after he was allegedly forced to make a false confession, and has since then resigned from his job. He is now seeking asylum as he fears for his own safety.
According to Cheng, people self-identified as secret services told him “there are no human rights” before starting the torture, making him hold stress positions for hours, such as squatting against a wall, and beating his vulnerable body parts such as ankles. “They wanted to know what role the UK had in the Hong Kong protests - they asked what support, money and equipment we were giving to the protesters,” said Cheng. Both Cheng and the #UK government claim his task of collecting information about the Hong Kong protests was purely to observe and not to interfere in any way.
Mainland China was supposed to honour the 'One Country, Two Systems' principle. Yet citizens of Hong Kong have allegedly been routinely detained in or even sent back to China on seemingly dubious charges. No one can be truly safe, even when you are within the borders of Hong Kong.
Full Article: John Sudworth, BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-50457262
Further reading: An Enemy of the State - Simon Cheung
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“I saw a bunch of Hong Kong people getting arrested and interrogated. I heard someone speak in Cantonese saying: 'Raise your hands up - you raised the flags in the protest didn’t you?'”
This is the recollection of Simon Cheng, a Hong Kong citizen arrested in Hong Kong and sent back to mainland China. Cheng was a trade and investment officer at the British Consulate in Hong Kong. In June this year, Cheng became one of the staff that volunteered for an additional role offered by the British Consulate to collect information about the status of the Hong Kong protests. On 8 August 2019, as he returned from a business conference in Shenzhen, China, he was arrested by Chinese authorities on a high-speed rail link after it crossed the border into Hong Kong. He was sent back to Shenzhen and put on administrative detention by the Chinese police for 15 days on the charge of prostitute solicitation. Cheng was released after he was allegedly forced to make a false confession, and has since then resigned from his job. He is now seeking asylum as he fears for his own safety.
According to Cheng, people self-identified as secret services told him “there are no human rights” before starting the torture, making him hold stress positions for hours, such as squatting against a wall, and beating his vulnerable body parts such as ankles. “They wanted to know what role the UK had in the Hong Kong protests - they asked what support, money and equipment we were giving to the protesters,” said Cheng. Both Cheng and the #UK government claim his task of collecting information about the Hong Kong protests was purely to observe and not to interfere in any way.
Mainland China was supposed to honour the 'One Country, Two Systems' principle. Yet citizens of Hong Kong have allegedly been routinely detained in or even sent back to China on seemingly dubious charges. No one can be truly safe, even when you are within the borders of Hong Kong.
Full Article: John Sudworth, BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-50457262
Further reading: An Enemy of the State - Simon Cheung
https://t.co/ptIXzfay7T
#OneCountryTwoSystems #Torture #SimonCheung #UKConsulate
BBC News
Simon Cheng: Former UK consulate worker says he was tortured in China
The man, detained in August, says he was blindfolded and beaten for his part in Hong Kong's protests.
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Hong Kong's National Security Law – Simon Cheng, previously kidnapped by Chinese government for forced confession: What they've done to me is now replicated on Hongkongers under the National Security Law
(22 May) "It is always darkest before dawn." Beijing's excuse for national security to cover up the reality of white terror via the forceful implementation of the Hong Kong National Security Law has thoroughly undermined Hong Kong Basic Law and the promised "one country, two systems", to the shock of many. To help readers understand Hongkonger's apprehension and the law's impact on Hong Kong, CMMedia Taiwan made connections to interview experts and scholars in Hong Kong, London and Mainland China.
//It is widely believed that this marks the end to 22 years of Hong Kong's "high degree of autonomy" since the Handover in 1997. "One country, two systems" has now become "one country, one system".
//there is widespread worry that Hong Kong's version would be used to suppress the Anti-ELAB movement and "silence" people.
//"If it gets passed, I'm afraid I won't be able to talk to you later on..."
//"My fears of being kidnapped again from not long ago is now a reality written into modern law," said Simon Cheng... He believes that CCP's original transgressions against him are now being replicated on Hongkongers via the Hong Kong National Security Law.
//all who advocate for democracy will be at risk. The destruction of Hong Kong's 'two systems' will become an undisputed reality."
//Once Xi Jinping came to power, however, China had already imagined itself as a "rising superpower" and could "stop pretending!"
//This time, the CCP is clearly giving its all to repossess Hong Kong but this will inevitably provoke Hongkongers' resistance."
Full translation:
https://telegra.ph/Hong-Kongs-National-Security-Law--Simon-Cheng-previously-kidnapped-by-Chinese-government-for-forced-confession-What-theyve-done--06-02
Source: CMMedia
https://www.cmmedia.com.tw/home/articles/21515?fbclid=IwAR1AyeNvihfVy_IstOcSNyXCqZVaKDUbXtY5b3qFfFswGVVQpgoZcqVtn0k
#NationalSecurityLaw #Xi #kidnap #OneCountryTwoSystem #OneCountryOneSystem #antiELAB
Hong Kong's National Security Law – Simon Cheng, previously kidnapped by Chinese government for forced confession: What they've done to me is now replicated on Hongkongers under the National Security Law
(22 May) "It is always darkest before dawn." Beijing's excuse for national security to cover up the reality of white terror via the forceful implementation of the Hong Kong National Security Law has thoroughly undermined Hong Kong Basic Law and the promised "one country, two systems", to the shock of many. To help readers understand Hongkonger's apprehension and the law's impact on Hong Kong, CMMedia Taiwan made connections to interview experts and scholars in Hong Kong, London and Mainland China.
//It is widely believed that this marks the end to 22 years of Hong Kong's "high degree of autonomy" since the Handover in 1997. "One country, two systems" has now become "one country, one system".
//there is widespread worry that Hong Kong's version would be used to suppress the Anti-ELAB movement and "silence" people.
//"If it gets passed, I'm afraid I won't be able to talk to you later on..."
//"My fears of being kidnapped again from not long ago is now a reality written into modern law," said Simon Cheng... He believes that CCP's original transgressions against him are now being replicated on Hongkongers via the Hong Kong National Security Law.
//all who advocate for democracy will be at risk. The destruction of Hong Kong's 'two systems' will become an undisputed reality."
//Once Xi Jinping came to power, however, China had already imagined itself as a "rising superpower" and could "stop pretending!"
//This time, the CCP is clearly giving its all to repossess Hong Kong but this will inevitably provoke Hongkongers' resistance."
Full translation:
https://telegra.ph/Hong-Kongs-National-Security-Law--Simon-Cheng-previously-kidnapped-by-Chinese-government-for-forced-confession-What-theyve-done--06-02
Source: CMMedia
https://www.cmmedia.com.tw/home/articles/21515?fbclid=IwAR1AyeNvihfVy_IstOcSNyXCqZVaKDUbXtY5b3qFfFswGVVQpgoZcqVtn0k
#NationalSecurityLaw #Xi #kidnap #OneCountryTwoSystem #OneCountryOneSystem #antiELAB
Telegraph
Hong Kong's National Security Law – Simon Cheng, previously kidnapped by Chinese government for forced confession: What they've…
(22 May) "It is always darkest before dawn." Beijing's excuse for national security to cover up the reality of white terror via the forceful implementation of the Hong Kong National Security Law has thoroughly undermined Hong Kong Basic Law and the promised…