Hong Kong national security police ‘investigating family members’ of fugitive unionist Mung Siu-tat in latest home raid linked to wanted eight

Hong Kong national security police are investigating family members of fugitive unionist Mung Siu-tat in the latest move against eight wanted activists, the Post has learned.

A source on Thursday said officers had two days ago raided the family’s home in Sha Tin and escorted Mung’s older brother as well as his wife and son to a police station for questioning.

He said the trio were released after being questioned by officers from the National Security Department. No arrests were made.

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“They were suspected of assisting persons wanted by police to continue to commit acts and engage in activities that endanger national security,” the source said.

He said the investigation was still under way and further action, including arrests, were possible. “Police will act on the basis of actual circumstances and according to the law.”

The raid came about 10 days after officers entered the family home of former opposition legislator Nathan Law Kwun-chung and questioned his parents and older brother.

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National security police on July 3 announced unprecedented HK$1 million (US$128,000) bounties each for information leading to the arrest of Law, Mung and six others.

Officers also arrested five former members of now-disbanded opposition political party Demosisto on July 6 and 7 for allegedly raising funds for Law. They were later released on bail pending further investigation.

According to a police reward notice, Mung, 51, is accused of smearing the central and local government during an overseas conference last June and advocated separating Hong Kong from China. He was chief executive of the now-disbanded Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions for 10 years.

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The other six wanted opposition figures are barrister and ex-legislator Dennis Kwok Wing-hang, former lawmaker Ted Hui Chi-fung, lawyer Kevin Yam Kin-fung, and activists Finn Lau Cho-dik, Anna Kwok Fung-yee and Elmer Yuan Gong-yi. They all live overseas.

Seven of them have been accused of calling for international sanctions against Hong Kong, a violation of the Beijing-imposed national security law in 2020 that the government has insisted has extraterritorial effect.

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