Canadian groups supporting Hong Kong’s democracy movement are calling on the federal government to impose targeted sanctions after arrest warrants and bounties were issued for overseas activists, including Canadians.

The groups sent a letter to Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand on Friday urging Ottawa to sanction high-ranking Hong Kong police and government officials — including Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu, the current and former police commissioner, and sitting judges — who the activists say have played “critical roles in enforcing the region’s repressive policies.”

“The actions of these officials constitute a direct attack on the principles of democracy, human rights, and the rule of law,” reads the letter signed by Edmund Leung, who chairs the Vancouver Society in Support

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