Family of prominent Hong Kong activist who fled to UK taken for questioning by police
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Chung Kim Wah is wanted for violating Chinese city’s national security law. The wife and son of a fugitive Hong Kong psephologist were reportedly taken from their home on Tuesday to “assist in a national security police investigation”. Chung Kim Wah, former deputy executive director of the Hong Kong Public Opinion Research Institute, or Pori, fled to the UK in 2022.
In December, he was named as one of the six activists wanted for violating the city’s draconian national security law. Subsequently, the Hong Kong police announced a HK$1m (£105,000) bounty for the outspoken commentator. Mr Chung was accused of advocating for Hong Kong's independence from China following the implementation of the national security law in the wake of the pro-democracy protests in 2019 and for allegedly seeking foreign sanctions against Beijing and Hong Kong between 2020 and 2023.
His wife, Tin Shui Wai, left a local police station after questioning at around 1.30pm local time, the Hong Kong Free Press reported. She and her son were taken to the station a day after pollster Robert Chung, the head of Pori, was questioned by the national security police investigating whether he or the organisation provided assistance to the fugitive.
The pollster, 67, was reportedly detained at his home in Pok Fu Lam and taken to Pori’s headquarters in Wong Chuk Hang for investigation. The police said he was suspected of using "his own company to render assistance to a wanted person who has absconded overseas, in continuing activities endangering national security in Hong Kong".
