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Nathan Law and 5 others are being actively sought by Hong Kong police for collusion with foreign forces and jeopardizing national security, reports Global Times, an English language website run by the Chinese Communist Party.
Former UK consulate staffer, Simon Cheng Man-kit (previously detained for soliciting prostitutes, dixit Global Times), and secessionist Samuel Chu (now a US national) of Washington-based Hong Kong Democracy Council (HKDC), are also on the wanted list. Other names mentioned are Ray Wong Toi-yeung and Lau Hong, and Chu and Wayne Chan Ka-kui.
Interestingly, the reason why the 6 are being sought is for crimes after the national security legislation was officially established -- hence after Nathan Law was already in London. It wouldn't be surprising if Law's interview on the BBC's Hard Talk would be reason for accusing him of jeopardizing national security.
According to the article, the six are spread around the world: Nathan Law, Ray Wong Toi-yeung and Lau Hong in the UK, Cheng Man-kit in the US, Chu and Wayne in the Netherlands, EU. Hong Kong police is planning to issue an international search warrant for the six, through Interpol.
The Hong Kong police department is a member of the Interpol, and countries that shield the suspects are showing no regard the Interpol framework and will face pressure from it, Zhi Zhenfeng, a legal expert at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing, stated.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Saturday August 01 2020, @04:27PM (2 children)
If China never gets the people they want, will they, in the future, arrest their descendants to answer for the "crimes"?
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 01 2020, @07:16PM
It's the communist way. [archive.is]
(Score: 2) by quietus on Saturday August 01 2020, @09:25PM
Better question: will they get to their relatives and friends?
(Score: 4, Touché) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday August 01 2020, @07:33PM (7 children)
Doesn't that suck? Good thing the US never, ever did anything like that...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 3, Insightful) by quietus on Saturday August 01 2020, @08:33PM (6 children)
Did the United States ever issue an interpol arrest warrant for somebody speaking out his mind?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 01 2020, @09:05PM (4 children)
We just tend to bomb them or send them to black sites after snatching them off the street.
(Score: 2) by quietus on Saturday August 01 2020, @09:19PM (3 children)
Can you give an example of such a case?
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 01 2020, @10:00PM (1 child)
Thought you may have remembered more current history, but:
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 02 2020, @01:35PM
That's different, that's "funny" [twitter.com]
(Score: 2, Informative) by fustakrakich on Sunday August 02 2020, @04:57AM
You trying to be funny? This simple wiki page is full of examples [wikipedia.org]...
Of course, all other things being equal, I expect people to speak up for their home country.
*East is east and west is west...*
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 5, Funny) by Arik on Saturday August 01 2020, @10:39PM
How soon you forget.
https://www.wired.com/2010/11/assange-interpol/
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by quietus on Saturday August 01 2020, @08:49PM (7 children)
That the CCP would go after the secessionists was to be expected. What is devious here is that they're stressing the use of the Interpol system to obligate other countries to help them.
If Interpol issues a red notice [justice.gov], and the Netherlands or the UK does not follow up on that, it is once more proof, according to the CCP, that the international rules-based system is slanted against them and, by extension, the whole of the developing world: hence, it is unfair and should be modified. If the Netherlands or the UK however follow up on the red notice, they'll be acknowledging that protesting against government policy is an internationally recognized crime.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 01 2020, @09:09PM
Russia and Turkey abuse Interpol too [journalofdemocracy.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 01 2020, @10:07PM (5 children)
Interpol is a communications network, not a command structure. Countries are sovereign in what they do with Interpol notices.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday August 02 2020, @12:14AM (4 children)
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 02 2020, @01:34AM (3 children)
Most countries have laws against sedition, even the USA.
https://codes.findlaw.com/us/title-18-crimes-and-criminal-procedure/18-usc-sect-2384.html [findlaw.com]
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday August 02 2020, @02:14AM (2 children)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 02 2020, @04:08AM (1 child)
A lot of what they are saying would arguably contravene this:
https://codes.findlaw.com/us/title-18-crimes-and-criminal-procedure/18-usc-sect-2385.html [findlaw.com]
Most other countries have similar. Governments really hate it when you say you want to get rid of them,
(Score: 1, Touché) by khallow on Sunday August 02 2020, @04:53AM