A Belizean businessman has been charged with trying to"intervene in Hong Kong affairs." Beijing has been trying to promote the rumor that foreign agents are behind the pro-democracy movement.
China announced on Friday that it would for the first time prosecute a foreign national in connection to thelast June and continued for the rest of last year. Lee Henley Hu Xiang, a citizen of Taiwan and Belize, has been charged with"colluding with overseas forces to intervene in Hong Kong affairs." The state-run China News service said an investigation into the businessman had found evidence that he had funded"hostile anti-China groups in the United States" and"criminal activities that endanger national security."Hong Kong has seen waves of major pro-democracy protests since the 2014"Umbrella Movement.
Lee was arrested last November in the city of Guangzhou, near Hong Kong, amid widespread accusations by China that foreign forces were funding and promoting what state media dubbed"the anti-China chaos." Recently, Beijing has been accused of using the coronavirus pandemic to clamp down even harder on pro-democracy activists seeking a greater level of autonomy for the city, including using an app meant to trace contact between infected individuals to track protestors. After weeks on lockdown, residents have slowly begun protesting again – and the arrests of demonstrators by Chinese authorities is again on the upswing.
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