Former Hong Kong legislator Law Kwun Chung announced on Monday (Dec. 21) that he had applied for political asylum with the British government after six months of exile in the United Kingdom.
He said on his Facebook page that Monday was the winter solstice, and that he missed his reunion and his fellow prisoners who are serving time. One month after the implementation of the Hong Kong National Security Law, he was listed as a wanted criminal, and he could not return to his hometown. If he wants to renew his HKSAR passport in the future, he has to enter the Chinese Embassy to go through the procedures, which is the same as “automatically sending to China”. In order to avoid becoming a person without a passport and identity, he decided to apply for political asylum in the UK.
In an interview with The Guardian, Lo said he chose the UK because he wanted to “sound the alarm” about the Chinese Communist Party’s threat to European democracy.
Lo, the former chairman of the founding party of the Hong Kong House of Representatives, explained on social media on July 2 that he had left Hong Kong. He then continued his international lobbying in the UK, meeting with the last Governor of Hong Kong, Chris Patten, in mid-July and with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who visited the UK in late July.
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