Three other important personalities of the Hong Kong Prodemocracy camp, now dismantled and dying, have been arrested.
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Cardinal Joseph Zen, 90 years old, eternal infant of the Chinese Communist Party, the star of Canto Pop Denise Ho, 45, and the famous lawyer for human rights and former deputy of the Democratic Party, Margaret NG, 74 years, were arrested Wednesday May 11 at the end of the day by the new political police, created to ensure compliance with the new draconian law on national security (LSN), imposed by Beijing in June 2020. All three are accused of “collusion With foreign forces “, one of the four crimes defined by LSN.
The day before, Professor Hui Po-Keung, a former lecturer at the University of Lingnan, had been arrested at the airport for the same reason when he was about to take a flight. According to local sources, he wanted to go to Europe where a position was waiting for him. Nathan Law, former youngest deputy of Hong Kong and founder of the Demosisto opposition party, also dissolved, had declared in the past his political commitment during Professor Hui. “If you want to punish someone, you will always find a reason,” he reacted, when he is currently in exile in the United Kingdom, learning the arrest of Hui Po-Keung. The latter, like the other people arrested, was one of the last important members of the prudemocracy camp still at Hong Kong.
intimate friend of Jimmy Lai
“The investigation shows that the suspects were administrators of fund 612. They are accused of having called foreign organizations to impose sanctions against Hong Kong, which could endanger national security. The operation is still In progress, “said police press release published a little before midnight on Wednesday. Police said the suspects had been released on bail. Their passports were confiscated.
The humanitarian support fund 612, dissolved since October 2021, had been created to financially support those arrested during summer 2019 demonstrations, both in their legal and medical procedures. The fund is the date of the first violent incident of summer 2019: June 12. Fearing prosecution, its administrators had ceased to accept donations in September 2021, a month before the announcement of the closure.
Cardinal Zen, a former bishop of Hong Kong from 2002 to 2009, has always been one of the most fervent militants in democracy for the special administrative region of China. He enjoys Hong Kong of an immense moral aura, despite the low representation of Christians in society (11 %, mostly Protestant). He is an intimate friend of the press boss Jimmy Lai, in prison for eighteen months, to whom he visits regularly, like many other political prisoners.
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