Belizean-born Shanghai real estate developer who financed Hong Kong anti-communists gets heavy 11-year sentence

On the evening of April 14, Lee Henley Hu Xiang, a Belizean national and former vice president of Shanghai Meidong Real Estate Co., Ltd. was convicted on Chinese Communist Party Central Television (CCTV) for funding anti-communist activists in Hong Kong. According to reports, Lee was sentenced to 11 years in prison on April 2.

On April 14, a program on CCTV’s “Focus Interview” said that Lee Henley tried to present himself as a “patriotic” businessman when he was in contact with government officials, while in private he had obvious anti-communist ideas.

The program mentioned that in June 2019, after the Hong Kong Send China movement, many mainland funds flowed to Hong Kong, and Henry Li donated hundreds of thousands of dollars of various funds to anti-communist Yang in the United States, and that he had secretly met with Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Leung Kwok-hung and former Hong Kong Federation of Students Secretary General Chow Wing-kong, and financed Huang Zhifeng, Chow, Law Kwun-chung and Zhang Kun-yang, and introduced them to overseas, meeting with anti-communist politicians and even senior government officials in that Western power. He also introduced them to overseas meetings with anti-communist politicians and even senior government officials in that Western power.

Hong Kong Apple Daily reported on April 15 that Luo Guancong wrote that he met Henry Li at the Diamond Hill station exit in the summer of 2015, but only for a few minutes. He explained that he did not need a “middleman” to arrange the meeting with the foreign government, saying it was introduced by Henry Li, which is a “very Chinese communist” logic, “imagining that we are a group of ‘pawns’ with no network, connection or ability. We are a group of ‘pawns’ with no network, connection, or ability, and everything we do is entrusted by our superiors, and even arranging meetings requires an intermediary to make things happen. ‘?” “The Hong Kong government is the only one that has been notorious for running into walls everywhere in international diplomatic forums, and the only one that has to rely on a ‘middleman’ to get things done is a group of incompetent officials in the Hong Kong government, I’m afraid.”

In the evening of the 14th CCTV program, Henry Li confessed to the charges against him. According to reports, on April 2, Henry Li, 65, was sentenced to 11 years in prison for “financing criminal activities that endanger national security.

As previously reported by the Southern Daily, Belizean businessman Henry Li, who lives in China, was arrested by the Communist Party’s State Security Bureau in Guangzhou on Nov. 26, 2019.

In a September 2019 interview, Taiwan-based veteran commentator Lin Baohua (pseudonym Ling Feng) said that since the anti-China campaign, the Chinese Communist Party has been hyping the so-called “foreign intervention” theory, pushing the Hong Kong issue onto the United States and Taiwan. In fact, since the Mao era, the CCP has always played the nationalism card to divert conflicts in order to absolve the CCP of responsibility in every major crisis.

In response to Henry Li’s confession on CCTV, some Hong Kong netizens shouted, “Heaven destroy the Communist bandits.” “The People’s Republic of China is not our motherland! It is nothing but a country where the communist bandits labor the people! This country is nothing but a country for the communists to play with! The communists are allowed to run amok, to trample on the Constitution, to ignore the law, to be self-serving, to be corrupt, and the people are not even free to speak the truth! The people have no human rights and freedom, the state has no judicial independence, the party is bigger than the law, what kind of country is this? This is a totalitarian country! It is a hell for the people and a heaven for the communists!”

Other Hong Kong netizens mocked CCTV: “No wonder the ratings are close to zero.”