{"id":119813,"date":"2023-12-29T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2023-12-29T07:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/hong-kong-democracy-advocate-seeks-asylum-in-britain\/"},"modified":"2023-12-29T09:00:16","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T07:00:16","slug":"hong-kong-democracy-advocate-seeks-asylum-in-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/hong-kong-democracy-advocate-seeks-asylum-in-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong democracy advocate seeks asylum in Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119813\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nHong Kong democracy activist Tony Chung said Friday he had fled to Britain because he could no longer endure living in fear, with authorities pressuring him to become a paid informant while banning him from working. In 2021, Chung, then 20, became the youngest person to be imprisoned under Hong Kong\u2019s sweeping national security law \u2014 imposed after massive and at times violent pro-democracy protests kicked off in 2019 in the former British colony. He pleaded guilty to \u201csecession\u201d and was sentenced to three and a half years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Since his early release in June, Chung said he has lived in daily fear. \u201cI feared stepping out of my home, feared using the phone in public, and worried about the possibility of being detained again by national security police officers on the streets,\u201d he said in a statement posted on his social media early Friday but dated December 27. Blocked from taking up work, Chung said &#8216;the national security police officers kept on coercing and inducing me to join them&#8217;. \u201cThey proposed providing informant fees, urging me to supply information about others as proof of my reformation and willingness to cooperate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said he got permission to leave Hong Kong by saying he wanted to go on holiday in Okinawa, Japan, and sought help once outside Chinese soil. \u201cAs I publish this statement, I have safely arrived in the United Kingdom and have formally applied for political asylum upon entry,\u201d Chung said. His post on social media included a photo of him holding a suitcase in front of a sign that says \u201cUK Arrivals\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Chung is the latest Hong Kong political figure to flee the city, following an announcement this month by activist Agnes Chow who had moved to Canada. Chow had said that as part of a deal with police, she agreed to travel to mainland China for a tour to observe the country\u2019s achievements in return for getting bail. In his Friday post, Chung wrote that police had asked him to go on a trip to mainland China but dropped the idea after he asked for ways to ensure his safety.<\/p>\n<p>AFP has contacted the police and prison officials for comment. Authorities this year have issued bounties for 13 pro-democracy activists abroad, promising HK$1 million (128,000) for information leading to their capture.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/world\/hong-kong-democracy-advocate-seeks-asylum-in-britain\/article\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/world\/hong-kong-democracy-advocate-seeks-asylum-in-britain\/article\">DJ<\/a> <\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/123390\/\">Hong Kong democracy advocate seeks asylum in Britain<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[3058,3754,1905,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-119813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-advocate","tag-asylum","tag-hong-kong","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}