Hong Kong: high bounty put on overseas-based activists

The Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Anna Kwok said she was determined not to back down even as Hong Kong police issued her and seven other overseas-based protesters with arrest warrants for alleged national security offences.

Announcing the warrants, John Lee, the Hong Kong chief executive, accusing the activists of offences including foreign collusion and incitement to secession, and offered a reward of HK$1m (£101,000) for information leading to each arrest. The activists, based in several countries, including the US, UK and Australia, are wanted under a national security law Beijing imposed on Hong Kong in 2020
China accuses UK of protecting ‘fugitives’ after bounty put on Hong Kong democracy activists