Morning Update: Hong Kong police make threatening phone call to prodemocracy supporter living in Canada | Unpublished
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Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Emerald Bensadoun
Publication Date: May 27, 2024 - 06:50

Morning Update: Hong Kong police make threatening phone call to prodemocracy supporter living in Canada

May 27, 2024
Good morning,A Hong Kong national-security officer threatened a Hong Konger seeking refuge in Canada after he went back on a deal to spy for China on the prodemocracy movement in Vancouver, according to an audio recording obtained by The Globe and Mail.In a February, 2024 recording of the telephone conversation provided to The Globe, an unnamed national-security-department officer complains that the man is not “co-operating with us” and issues veiled threats: “How is your life? … You will have consequences.” The Globe is not identifying the individual whose family is at grave risk in Hong Kong.


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