The Chinese authorities have arrested relatives of a former Hong Kong politician who protested against the new Mega-Megassi of the Communist regime in London.
30-year-old Carmen Lau escaped from his native Hong Kong five years ago and joined 3,000 others at a rally in February against plans to build the 5.5 acres complex near the Tower Bridge.
In a speech during the event, the activist said it allows China to build a large diplomatic mission sends the “wrong message” that the UK welcomes authoritarian regimes.
However, within 48 hours after its remarks, Chinese National Security Police arrested her older aunt and uncle in Hong Kong. They were detained in the morning attacks on their homes and were questioned for six hours before being released.
D -Ja Lau said her relatives were questioned about the relationships she still has for the former British colony. “They wanted to know about the financial relations I had with others in Hong Kong and were interested in my family tree – the other relatives I had in Hong Kong,” she told the mail on Sunday.
Harassment
Then D -Ja Lau believes the police used the information they received to arrest another aunt a week later, and questioned it for a few hours. The activist claims that harassment is the method of Chinese regime to make her stop her “anti -Chinese” activities in the UK.
Ms. Lau was the Deputy General Secretary of the Civil Party, the second largest Democracy Party in Hong Kong, which was forcibly dissolved. She was also a district advisor.
She resigned on her role as an adviser in 2021, fled the former British colony and sought asylum in the UK after Chinese authorities put her under surveillance. She claims that there are undercover police officers parked outside her apartment and was followed. She said she was also harassed by security staff and state media.
Authorities in Hong Kong have placed her and five overseas activists in a list of wishes in December.
In February, the neighbors of the Berkshire campaign received a wealth note offering more than 100,000 British pounds for information about G -Ja Lau or anyone who can lure it at the current Chinese Embassy in Meribon in Central London. The note also accused her of inciting protests and a conspiracy with foreign power against Beijing.
Police detained demonstrators during a protest outside the proposed site of the new conversion of the Chinese Embassy in the Royal Mint, East London – Jordan Petit/Pa
If approved, the new mega-e-ejser will be 10 times the current Chinese Embassy and the largest diplomatic mission in the country in Europe.
The website in the former Royal Mint court in East London will include offices, 225 homes and a cultural exchange building.
China bought the site for more than £ 255 million in 2018, but Tower Hamlets Borough Council rejected plans for the Embassy in 2022.
They did not appeal the decision against the background of speculation that at that time the conservative government would support the Council’s decision. However, they were again sent mostly unchanged plans only weeks after the Labor won last year’s general elections.
Underground rooms
However, D -Ja Lau expressed concerns about the underground rooms that will contain the new embassy. Their exact goal was edited on plans for “security reasons”.
D -Ja Lau added: “These rooms can be used for interrogations and locking people like us. They can be used to torment our torture.”
During the February protests, chanting “Freedom Freedom, Stand with Hong Kong” and “Mega Embassy, Mega Not” resolved through the crowds. The protesters came from Scotland, Liverpool, Reading and Manchester.
Mrs. Lau said she believed that the mega-emator would become a “transnational repression” center from China in Central London.
She also said that the Sofia police had advised her not to attend public gatherings, as she could be attacked and her relatives at home could be at risk.