HK police arrest 11 for helping fugitives: reports

The national security unit of the Hong Kong Police Force arrested 11 people on Thursday (Jan. 14) on suspicion of helping 12 fugitives to flee the city, according to local news and social media posts.

Daniel Wong Kwok-tung, a lawyer and Kowloon City district councilor, posted on social media that he was arrested on Thursday morning. Activist Willis Ho Kit-wang said in a social media post that her mother was arrested in relation to the case of the 12 fugitives.

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Ten of the 12 fugitives were jailed for illegal border crossing on Dec 30 in Shenzhen, Guangdong province. They were intercepted in August 2020 by Chinese mainland coast guards when they tried to leave for Taiwan to escape prosecution in Hong Kong over their roles in the protest violence in 2019.

(Source: China Daily)