HONG KONG: Hong Kong national security police on Thursday (Jul 20) detained four people, including the brother of prominent activist Dennis Kwok, one of eight fugitives with bounties on their heads for allegedly breaching national security. The city's national security department 'took in two men and two w
HONG KONG: Hong Kong national security police on Thursday detained four people, including the brother of prominent activist Dennis Kwok, one of eight fugitives with bounties on their heads for allegedly breaching national security.
Among the four was the elder brother of former democracy lawmaker Dennis Kwok, who is currently in the United States.Three others,"two women and a man", were taken in on Tuesday by the national security department, authorities told AFP earlier on Thursday.The source confirmed that the three detained on Tuesday were the elder brother, sister-in-law and nephew of prominent unionist Mung Siu-tat, who is also among the eight wanted.
The rash of detentions comes two weeks after authorities offered rewards of HK$1 million for information leading to the arrest of eight prominent democracy activists now based abroad, accusing them of subversion, foreign collusion and other crimes. Mung and Kwok's families were not the first to be targeted by the national security department - last week, three family members ofA longtime labour rights unionist, Mung is currently in Britain where he continues to advocate for those in Hong Kong targeted under the national security law, imposed after massive protests kicked off in 2019.
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