{"version":1,"tree":{"n":"html","c":[{"n":"head","x":"\n ","l":"\n ","c":[{"n":"title","x":"Desconocido","l":"\n \n "},{"n":"link","l":"\n","a":[["rel","stylesheet"],["type","text/css"],["href","../../stylesheet.css"]]},{"n":"link","l":"\n","a":[["rel","stylesheet"],["type","text/css"],["href","../../page_styles.css"]]}]},{"n":"body","a":[["class","calibre"]],"c":[{"n":"div","x":"| ","a":[["class","calibre_navbar"]],"c":[{"n":"a","x":"Siguiente","l":" | ","a":[["href","javascript:void(0)"],["rel","articlenextlink"],["data-xQvX3JSyyUS4yAvbblzwf5","{\"name\": \"feed_11/article_3/index_u56.html\", \"frag\": \"\", \"missing\": true}"]]},{"n":"a","x":"Menú de sección","l":" | ","a":[["href","javascript:void(0)"],["data-xQvX3JSyyUS4yAvbblzwf5","{\"name\": \"feed_11/index_u35.html\", \"frag\": \"article_2\"}"]]},{"n":"a","x":"Menú principal","l":" | ","a":[["href","javascript:void(0)"],["data-xQvX3JSyyUS4yAvbblzwf5","{\"name\": \"index_u63.html\", \"frag\": \"feed_11\"}"]]},{"n":"a","x":"Anterior","l":" | ","a":[["href","javascript:void(0)"],["rel","articleprevlink"],["data-xQvX3JSyyUS4yAvbblzwf5","{\"name\": \"feed_11/article_1/index_u17.html\", \"frag\": \"\"}"]]},{"n":"hr","l":"\n","a":[["class","calibre6"]]}]},{"n":"div","a":[["class","calibre-nuked-tag-article"]],"c":[{"n":"div","x":"The very long arm","a":[["class","calibre8"]]},{"n":"h1","x":"China intensifies its campaign against exiled Hong Kong dissidents","a":[["class","calibre9"]]},{"n":"div","x":"Police in the territory are harassing the families of those who have fled","a":[["class","calibre19"]]},{"n":"p","x":"may. 09, 2025 10:08 ","a":[["class","calibre10"]]},{"n":"div","a":[["class","calibre-nuked-tag-article"]],"c":[{"n":"img","a":[["src","images/img1_u24.jpg"],["title","Anna Kwok"],["class","calibre3"],["data-calibre-src","feed_11/article_2/images/img1_u24.jpg"]]}]},{"n":"div","a":[["class","calibre11"]]},{"n":"p","a":[["class","calibre12"]],"c":[{"n":"span","x":"O","a":[["data-caps","initial"],["class","calibre13"]]},{"n":"span","x":"N APRIL 30TH","l":" Hong Kong police unleashed a new weapon in their attempt to punish those who have fought for freedoms in the former British territory since 2019. The father and brother of one activist who took part in mass protests that year, Anna Kwok (who fled to America in 2020), were detained on suspicion of assisting an “absconder” by “directly or indirectly” handling her funds or assets.","a":[["class","calibre14"]]}]},{"n":"p","x":"This is an offence under the 2024 legislation known as Article 23, one of the city’s two sweeping national-security laws. (The first was imposed by the government in Beijing in 2020.) Ms Kwok’s brother was freed on bail pending further investigation. But on May 2nd, Kwok Yin-sang, her 68-year-old father, was charged. If found guilty, he faces up to seven years in prison.","a":[["class","calibre12"]]},{"n":"p","x":"The move marks a serious escalation by the Hong Kong authorities, under pressure from Beijing, to enforce complete political control over the territory. Last year they jailed a group of 45 prominent activists who stayed in the city, for between four and ten years. But this is the first time a family member of an exiled activist has been prosecuted. In 2023 the Hong Kong government placed a bounty on several campaigners abroad, including Ms Kwok, who now leads the Hong Kong Democracy Council in Washington,","a":[["class","calibre12"]],"c":[{"n":"span","x":" ","l":"accusing them of colluding with foreign forces. That can carry a sentence of life in prison. There are now 19 “wanted” activists living in exile, who have a bounty on their head. The authorities have revoked the passports of Ms Kwok and 12 others.","a":[["class","calibre14"]]}]},{"n":"p","x":"Their family members have faced increasing harassment. Since January police have interrogated the families of at least five of the exiled activists, says Human Rights Watch (","a":[["class","calibre12"]],"c":[{"n":"span","x":"HRW","l":"), an ","a":[["class","calibre14"]]},{"n":"span","x":"NGO","l":" in New York. They raided the office of the Hong Kong Public Opinion Research Institute, an institution associated with Chung Kim-wah, a scholar now based in Britain, and confiscated HK$800,000 ($103,000) from the family of Ted Hui, a former lawmaker who lives in Australia, both for allegedly contravening national security.","a":[["class","calibre14"]]}]},{"n":"p","x":" Many ordinary Hong Kongers have left the city since the crackdown on dissent began in 2020. By May 2024 more than 200,000 had arrived in Britain under a scheme set up to allow people from the territory who met certain conditions to emigrate to the former colonial power.","a":[["class","calibre12"]]},{"n":"p","x":"But fleeing the city does not take them beyond the reach of the Communist Party. The new laws criminalise acts deemed a threat to China’s national security, even if they are committed elsewhere. Some of the exiles say they have experienced campaigns of online intimidation, and have been followed and monitored abroad.","a":[["class","calibre12"]]},{"n":"p","a":[["class","calibre12"]],"c":[{"n":"span","x":"HRW","l":" has urged foreign governments to take concrete actions against the intimidation campaign “by imposing targeted sanctions on government officials implicated in these abuses”. Ms Kwok has not commented on her relatives’ arrests, but recently pointed to the Hong Kong authorities’ claims that the city respects human rights. “We are living examples of that not being true,” she said. 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