At the end of November last year, former Hong Kong legislator Raymond Hui Chi-fung announced his exile after a visit to Denmark, causing the Hong Kong government to threaten to hold Danish Green Party MP Uffe Elbæk and Conservative Party MP Katarina Ammitzbøll responsible for assisting Hui Chi-fung’s escape, and even said it would issue an international wanted notice.
According to foreign media reports, this time Denmark broke the cautious policy towards Beijing for more than 10 years, in addition to the two members of parliament who assisted Xu Zhi Feng’s escape; even the Danish Parliament unanimously passed a resolution to publicly criticize China’s human rights violations in Hong Kong by a vote of 84:0 on December 21 last year.
In 2009, the Dalai Lama visited Copenhagen and had an informal meeting with the then Danish Prime Minister, but was protested by the Chinese. As Denmark did not dare to anger Beijing, it subsequently recognized China’s sovereignty over Tibet and opposed Tibetan independence claims.
Today, however, Denmark has hardened its stance, with Liberal Party spokesman Michael Aastrup Jensen saying that Denmark is not alone in its disagreement with China’s imposition of a Hong Kong version of the National Security Law in Hong Kong, as it has seen with Australia, Sweden and Canada.
In addition, Danish Foreign Minister Kofoed also pointed out that he would never agree to extradite members of parliament to Hong Kong, and that members of parliament have the right to meet with anyone, and the Danish government will definitely defend this right.
The exile of Johnnie Hui and his assistant Chen Weixin
Johnnie Hui was politically prosecuted by the Hong Kong government for his participation in the protest movement. He was invited to Europe by a Danish MP during his bail period in December last year, and later announced his exile.
After Johnnie Hui announced his exile, Anders Storgaard, the former chairman of the Danish Conservative Party’s Youth Committee, revealed on social media that, in fact, Johnnie Hui had already thought of leaving Hong Kong as early as September last year, and was proud to have succeeded in getting Johnnie Hui to leave Hong Kong. Erik Baker also said at the end of last year through social networking sites, will try to ensure the personal safety of Johnnie Hui, at that time has caused outside speculation whether Johnnie has plans to exile.
During the anti-sending period, Raymond Koh has been at the forefront of the struggle, his assistant Chen Weixin also accompanied, and even in the battlefield of tear gas, rubber bullets and sacks, it can be said that the life and death. After he went into exile overseas, his personal and family accounts were frozen.
After the exile of Johnnie Hui, Chen Weixin was also followed and monitored by unknown persons for a long period of time, and Chen also went into exile in the United Kingdom for fear of being unjustly imprisoned.
Before leaving Hong Kong, Chen Weixin gave an interview to Apple Daily about his friendship with Johnnie Hui and his experiences under the White Terror. The 51-year-old had joined the founding chairman of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China (HKASPDMC), Szeto Wah, and others in an overnight protest outside the Xinhua News Agency in Hong Kong during the June 4 Incident in 1989. After that, Chan joined the United Democrats of Hong Kong and the Civic Party; in 2014, he joined the pro-democracy movement as a non-party member; in 2015, he bonded with Johnnie Hui and later became known as a brother, when they camped together in a park for 30 days and successfully fought the government to turn the temporary park at Cadogan Street into a permanent park. After that, he became the voluntary parliamentary assistant of Johnnie Hui without receiving any salary until the end of last year when he declared his exile.
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