Simon Cheng fears pro-Chinese Communist Party activists traced him to the heart of London's legal quarter
While discussing a campaign on CCP interference on UK universities, they changed seats three times but continued to be followed, with one young woman filming them when they moved outside.When the individuals were approached by a friend of Mr Cheng, a woman denied a young man she was with spoke Mandarin, even though he did, and refused to say where in China they were from.
Simon Cheng,, a prominent Hong Kong activist, discovered a £10,000 bounty had been offered for his UK address in 2021, sparking a police investigation A former employee of the UK’s Hong Kong consulate, Mr Cheng has alleged he was tortured in China in 2019 and accused of inciting political unrest in the city.
“I do feel recently, especially after Article 23 has been imposed, that surveillance of me has been tightened,” Mr Cheng said,But despite the increased danger he feels, UK police and government officials had not proactively contacted him to offer support after the bounty was put on his head last December, he said.
“She couldn’t explain why she was there. And she was acting quite suspiciously. She claimed the boy was her son and studied at King’s College. We asked her what did he study, and she couldn’t say.He was so suspicious he made an audio recording documenting his thoughts about the incident and took photos of the individuals.