獨家|三名學生動源活躍分子被國安警察拘捕後幾小時,四人包括庇護計劃者進入了美使館
Exclusive | Four enter US consulate just hours after Hong Kong national security police arrest three student activists, including one who planned asylum bid
- Former Studentlocalism convenor Tony Chung was detained at about 8am at a coffee shop just a few dozen metres from American diplomatic offices
- Two former members of the group – Yannis Ho and William Chan – were later arrested when they reported to a police station
Four Hong Kong activists entered the US consulate on Tuesday afternoon, just hours after the police national security unit arrested the former leader of a pro-independence group ahead of his planned asylum bid at the diplomatic mission.
A video taken by the Post captured the four running up Garden Road and talking to security guards before being allowed into the building.
Tony Chung Hon-lam, former convenor of the now-defunct Studentlocalism, was at a branch of Pacific Coffee opposite the consulate when he was detained by at least three officers shortly after 8am.
Hours after the swoop on Chung, two former members of the group – Yannis Ho and William Chan – were also arrested when they reported to a police station in connection with their prior arrest on July 29, according to the group’s Facebook page.
The pair had previously been released on bail in July after being nabbed alongside Chung over alleged violations of the national security law. Lawyers said police were taking their statements.
A police source said Chung was the administrator of the Facebook pages Hong Kong Studentlocalism US Division and Initiative Independence Party. Since his arrest on July 29, the two pages allegedly continued to upload posts inciting subversion of the government, an act criminalised under the city’s new national security law, for which he was arrested on Tuesday.
Chung and three others were
under the sweeping new law in July over the group’s stated mission to turn the city into a republic, marking the first such crackdown on anti-government activists not at the scene of street protests. He was then released on police bail.
The Post witnessed as the 19-year-old, flanked by two men, was led away from the shop in St John’s Building, which sits within 50 metres of the US consulate.
Another source familiar with the matter said Chung was now being held at Central Police Station.
Friends of Hong Kong, a London-based organisation which vows to “defend democracy, rights and freedoms in Hong Kong”, has been helping the activist.
In an earlier statement, the organisation, which confirmed Chung’s asylum bid, said it suspected he had been taken away by law enforcement agents enforcing the national security law.
“There were two police wagons and four more seven-seaters further down the road,” said one member, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
He said the group of at least three people who took Chung was later joined by about a dozen more, some in police uniform and others in plain-clothes.
In addition to subversion, the national security law bans acts of secession, terrorism and collusion with foreign forces.
The Post has approached the US consulate and Hong Kong police for comment, but no contact information was available for Beijing’s national security office in Hong Kong.
The arrests come days after Taiwan deported Hongkonger Lee Pun-ho for tailing and photographing Chung on the self-ruled island last year. Lee was accused of offering those pictures to pro-Beijing newspapers in Hong Kong.
Chung’s conditions for his HK$2,000 bail bar him from travelling for six months and he is required to report to police once a month.
As of October 15, Hong Kong police’s national security department had arrested 22 men and six women for allegedly engaging in activities that jeopardise national security, with one of the males held twice.
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