HONG KONG - Hong Kong's arrest warrants for activists overseas show that exile and foreign nationality are no protection against the city's sweeping national security law, one of the targeted dissidents has warned.
"Hong Kong police is targeting a US citizen for lobbying my own government. I might be the first non-Chinese citizen to be targeted, but I will not be the last," Chu said on Twitter. Others wanted by Hong Kong police include prominent democracy activist Nathan Law who recently fled the city for Britain, and Simon Cheng, a former British consulate staffer who was granted asylum in the UK after allegedly being tortured in China.
Since the law came into effect, a dozen leading pro-democracy campaigners have been disqualified from running in legislative elections, and four students - one of them only aged 16 - have been arrested on suspicion of"inciting succession" on social media.
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