Australia has expressed issues over nameless letters reportedly providing a considerable reward for info on Kevin Yam Kin-fung, a needed Hong Kong activist at the moment dwelling in Melbourne.
The Put up additionally discovered on Tuesday {that a} member of the family of fugitive Tony Chung Hon-lam was dropped at Kowloon West Regional Police Headquarters to help with an ongoing investigation into suspected nationwide safety legislation violations.
In line with a UK-based newspaper, long-time Hong Kong opposition activist Yam was the topic of letters providing a HK$1 million (US$128,700) reward for any info regarding the lawyer’s whereabouts.
Yam, an Australian citizen who beforehand lived in Hong Kong for 20 years earlier than returning to the nation in 2022, has been important of town authorities’s dealing with of the 2019 protests.
The letters embrace a photograph of Yam and an overview of his alleged offences. They urged recipients to “take him to Hong Kong or Australia Metropolitan Police”, and had been despatched to houses in two areas in Melbourne that it cited as being linked to the activist.
The letters had been unsigned however requested any related info be despatched to a Hong Kong police e-mail deal with used for tip-offs.