Hong Kong Issues Bounties for More Exiled Dissidents
The move comes despite international concern over the city’s efforts to push a national-security crackdown globally.
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The move comes despite international concern over the city’s efforts to push a national-security crackdown globally.
US and UK criticise move while one of the five decries ‘transnational repression harassment tactics’
The development further intensified the Hong Kong government’s crackdown on dissidents after anti-government protests in 2019.
Responding to the Hong Kong police placing bounties of HK$1m (US$128,000) on five exiled pro-democracy activists, as well as arresting in Hong Kong four persons accused of assisting exiled activists targeted in a previous round of bounties, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for Greater China, Sarah Brooks said: “This is further confirmation that the Hong Kong authorities’ systematic dismantling of human rights has officially gone global. The brazen tactic of placing ‘Wild
Hong Kong hunts activists abroad with million-dollar bounties, vowing pursuit "till the end" despite global condemnation.