Senior backbench Tory MP Sir Iain Duncan Smith has called on the Government to “wake up” to the systemic threat of China after theipaper revealed Hong Kong dissidents who have fled to the UK been followed and harassed by suspected pro-Beijing informants
Simon Cheng, 32, a leading pro-democracy dissident who fled to the UK after allegedly being tortured in China, toldIn 2021, the Metropolitan Police launched an investigation after a £10,000 bounty was offered on WeChat for the addresses of Mr Cheng, a former worker at the British consulate in Hong Kong, and Nathan Law, another dissident.
He had heard of about 10 cases of “systematic” attempted recruitment of informers by police in Hong Kong to work abroad, with the UK a prioritised destination. “They think they are involved in some activities supporting Hong Kongers, asylum seekers and pro-democracy activists and they know they might have some material that the police can blackmail them [with], manipulate them.”
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