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Senior backbench Conservative MP Sir Yin Duncan Smith called on the government to “wake up” to the systemic threat from China. I Hong Kong dissidents who fled to Britain have revealed they are being tracked and harassed by alleged pro-Beijing informants.
The former Conservative Party leader said the government’s current policy toward China was “weak” and needed “strengthening”.
on friday, I revealed that dissidents in Hong Kong were being tracked, threatened, photographed and on one occasion robbed after fleeing China-controlled territory to Britain.
Scottish-based Hong Kong activist Timothy (not his real name) described how he was pursued for four days by two masked men dressed in black. Another prominent activist, Finn Lau, said he was severely beaten by three masked men in London in June of that year.
The owner of a restaurant in east London also said I They had received anonymous calls from Britain and China warning them to stop promoting pro-democracy movements in Hong Kong.
In response to the findings, Lord Yin said the government should “harden up” and tell China that its nefarious activities are “no longer acceptable”.
“What we have is an aggressive war going under the radar with threats, bullying and espionage,” he said. I“The government has done nothing about it.”
China’s repressive National Security Law (NSL), which came into effect in 2020, has forced more than 160,000 Hong Kongers to flee to the UK on UK Stay Abroad BN(O) visas.
The Security Law, which Beijing claims applies abroad and has been used to quell dissent in Hong Kong, criminalizes any act Beijing deems secession, subversion, terrorism, or collusion with foreign or external forces. is.
In October, Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters were dragged to the premises of the Chinese consulate in Manchester and beaten. Foreign Minister James Cleverley announced in December that six consular officials the police wanted to interrogate had been recalled to Beijing.
Sir Ian said the government needed to “wake up” to the “systemic threat” China posed to Britain.
He said, “The government’s policies are weak and have achieved nothing. China needs to realize that it is not a systemic challenge, as the prime minister once said, but a systemic threat.”
“Whether it’s beating people on the streets of Manchester, intimidating students, or brutally trying to wield Chinese power in Britain through illegal police stations, it’s a pattern of behavior that undermines the British government every time. ”
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Anti-democracy leader Simon Cheng, 32, who fled to Britain after being allegedly tortured in China, said. I Hong Kong police are actively recruiting informants to come to the UK.
In 2021, London’s Metropolitan Police launched an investigation after a £10,000 bounty was offered on WeChat for the addresses of Mr Chen, a former British consulate employee in Hong Kong, and Nathan Law, another dissident. Did.
Cheng, whose British Hong Kong group has helped thousands of compatriots to come to Britain, also says he was chased in London at least twice in 2020 by suspected pro-Beijing activists. He ordered the arrest of him and his five other pro-democracy activists in exile on suspicion of NSL violations.
He had heard of about a dozen cases in which Hong Kong police attempted to “systematically” recruit informants to work abroad.
Mr Chen said: And even they pay them.
“They believe they are involved in some kind of activity that supports Hong Kongers, asylum seekers and pro-democracy activists, and they know the police may have materials that can be used to intimidate them. [with]to manipulate them.
Asked whether pro-Chinese Communist Party (CCP) informants were harassing or spying on Hong Kong refugees in Britain, British intelligence sources said. I: “Definitely. I’m amazed at the contradictions about it. It’s bread and butter.”
“I think it is likely sponsored by almost every country. State surveillance often involves harassment. It’s a book.”
Britain’s last governor-general of Hong Kong, Tory Lord Burns Lord Patten, urged the government to “listen to them and give them due consideration” before pressing the Chinese embassy with the allegations.
he said I: “I hope the Ministry of Interior and Ministry of Foreign Affairs will listen to people’s complaints and take them up with the Chinese Ambassador.
“People who come and live here have the right to live freely, free from interference from those who are motivated or organized by outside forces.”