After his release from prison in June, Hong Kong’s pro-independence and pro-democracy activist Tony Chung (鍾翰林) says he has safely arrived in the United Kingdom and has applied for political asylum upon entry.
Chung, who was sentenced to three years and seven months in prison for calling for Hong Kong’s secession from the Beijing-imposed law, wrote on his Facebook page that the city’s national security police routinely summoned him to report his whereabouts and even asked him to collect other people’s information for authorities.
Chung says the national security officers requested meetings regularly. To attend these meetings, he was always ordered to board a van with closed curtains and was transported to unknown locations. He said the police would interrogate him about his activities, ask about the individuals he had met, and force him to provide detailed information about every conversation he had.
In response to Chung’s revelation, a spokesperson at the Chinese embassy in the U.K. said Hong Kong authorities have issued a recall order for Chung and are seeking his arrest.