Surveillance cameras are seen at Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong last year. China has used its 2020 national security law to stamp out opposition in Hong Kong.
Police in Hong Kong on Wednesday questioned the father of a Canada-based activist upon whom the authorities last month placed a $35,000 bounty, according to local media.
Alan Keung, a Christian pastor and founder of the online publication “Free HK Media,” was jailed on sedition charges in March, 2023, over a book he and two others sold at an independent literary fair. Following his release, Mr. Keung relocated to Canada, where he has been involved in efforts to form a “parliament in exile” made up of pro-democracy activists from the Chinese territory.
Dressed in a priest’s dog collar and protective gear, Mr. Keung was a common