You can get HK$1 million (in U.S. dollars, around $129,000) for providing Hong Kong thug-authorities with information that leads to the arrests of the six. The only thing required in addition to having this information is that you be the kind of person who would help imprison people for resisting tyranny.
Third tranche
The Hong Kong government’s new announcement is its third about pro-democracy refugees from Hong Kong whom the Chinese Communist Party wants to especially make an example of (Hong Kong Free Press, December 24, 2024).
The outlaws are Tony Chung, Carmen Lau, Chung Kim-wah, Chloe Cheung, Joseph Tay, and Victor Ho (shown above, starting with Chung in the upper left; the hyperlinks in the names take you to videos or an article featuring these individuals). The total number of escapees with bounties on their heads for sinning against “national security” is now 19.
Police on Tuesday announced the arrest warrant against activist Tony Chung, the former convenor of the now-disbanded pro-independence group Studentlocalism. The 23-year-old is already wanted for breaching a supervision order after his release from prison, where he served almost four years over a national security offence.
Carmen Lau, 29, a former district councillor and now an activist with the US-based NGO Hong Kong Democracy Council, and Chloe Cheung, 19, an activist with the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong, have also been wanted. Both are now in the UK.
The rest of the wanted are political commentator Chung Kim-wah, 64, formerly a pollster at the Hong Kong Public Opinion Research Institute; ex-TVB actor Joseph Tay, 62, who co-founded the Canada-based NGO HongKonger Station; and YouTuber Victor Ho, 69, also based in Canada.
The six are accused of committing national security offences including inciting secession and colluding with foreign forces.
Although the above does not make it clear, reports on Chung Kim-wah’s departure from Hong Kong in 2022 indicate that he fled to the United Kingdom.
The elastic categories of “inciting secession,” “colluding with foreign forces” and the like can all be boiled down to “resisting tyranny,” the tyranny of the Chinese government.
RFA does not assume that any of the six named are in fact responsible for doing things like urging foreign governments to impose sanctions on Hong Kong and China and on various Hong Kong officials responsible for implementing the repressive national security laws. The report refers only to allegations or accusations. But I assume that the allegations are more or less true; i.e., that these freedom fighters really did fight for the freedom of Hong Kong and against the evil Chinese Communist Party.
Give; commit
If you don’t want to turn in any of the six, maybe you can help them instead. Andrew Kan, Hong Kong’s deputy police commissioner for national security, that’s a thing, says: “Anyone who gives funds to these fugitives’ activities that endanger national security, such as by giving money on online platforms, could commit an offence.” Good to know, but he should have provided links to the platforms.
