Huang Zhifeng at Lai Chi Kok Reception Centre on December 18, 2020.
Huang Zhifeng, the former secretary-general of Hong Kong’s Hong Kong Alliance, is charged with “subversion of state power” in prison. Recently, Huang’s parents sold their property in Hong Kong and took his brother, a family of three, to Australia.
The Sing Tao Daily reported on Jan. 19 that Wong’s family sold their apartment at “The Harbourfront” at a low price and left Hong Kong for Australia recently. Huang’s father, Huang Weiming, declined an interview with the media on the grounds that he was “not available”.
It is reported that Huang Weiming bought a home in the “Harbourfront Peninsula” for HK$4.15 million in 2007 and sold it for HK$9.8 million at the end of 2020, selling for about 10% less than the market price.
The neighbors near Wong Wai Ming’s house said that the Wong family no longer lived here six months ago and had not seen any lights on in their house for a long time, so it may have been sold for some time.
According to reports, former legislator Lam Cheuk Ting also sold his home in Shatin last week at a low price. He explained that he has no plans to leave Hong Kong, but the “political winter” in Hong Kong is still very long, he needs to pay the legal fees for the lawsuit, but also for the family life and children’s schooling plans, Lam Cheuk Ting’s 16-year-old son is ready to study overseas.
As for why the low price of selling houses, Lin Zhuo Ting said: “That is only a number, the most important is the safety of the family.”
Recently, the chairman of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, Lee Cheuk-yan, also sold the property of Mobil Properties.
In December last year, the family of former Hong Kong legislator Raymond Hui left Hong Kong and settled in the United Kingdom. Johnnie Hui was also charged with a number of crimes.
During the U.S. election period, the Chinese Communist authorities have been cracking down on Hong Kong democrats, and almost all of the dozens of democrats who participated in the pan-democratic Legislative Council primary were arrested and charged.
On December 2 last year, Wong Chi-fung was charged with illegal assembly and sentenced to 13.5 months in prison, and on January 7, he was arrested again for participating in the pan-democratic Legislative Council primaries and charged with “subversion of state power” under the “Hong Kong version of the National Security Law. “The company’s Facebook page is a good place to start.
The police searched Huang’s home for nearly 1.5 hours on suspicion of violating the “Hong Kong version of the National Security Law,” according to a post on Huang’s Facebook page on the 6th.
The international community has issued severe condemnation of the mass arrests of pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong, saying such crackdowns are a serious violation of “one country, two systems”. The British government said it was a serious attack on Hong Kong’s rights and freedoms.
British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said the arrests show that “the real purpose of Hong Kong’s national security laws is to crack down on opposing views and voices of political dissent.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Secretary of State designate Antony Blinken both condemned the arrests. Pompeo said, “This move by the Hong Kong government is another stark example of the fundamental destruction of Hong Kong’s freedom and democratic process by the Chinese Communist Party.”
The U.S. State Department announced on Jan. 15 that in response to the Hong Kong government’s recent mass arrests of pan-democrats, it has sanctioned six Chinese and Hong Kong officials, including You Quan, deputy head of the Communist Party’s Central Coordination Group for Hong Kong and Macau, and Sun Qingye, deputy head of the Office of State Security in Hong Kong, whose assets will be frozen in the United States.
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