Activists call for reassurances to be given to those who gave information to parliamentarians
Finn Lau’s meeting with a Westminster researcher who was later arrested on suspicion of spying forLau, an exiledpro-democracy activist with a £100,000 bounty on his head, has a lingering suspicion that some of his ideas for putting more pressure on China appear not to have made it beyond their meeting.
The researcher who was arrested, who had a parliamentary pass and contact with ministers, is not thought to have family ties to China. Lau said: “It has not changed my behaviour. But I think people will also now be even more careful about who they engage with, no matter what the colour of their skin. You might say that there is even a benefit to that, if it punctures the stereotypes of what an alleged Chinese spy should be.
In a call echoed by Amnesty International, Chung Ching Kwong, a Hong-Kong born democracy activist now living in the UK, called for reassurances to be given to those who gave information to parliamentarians and who now fear they may be at risk.
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