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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Ben Quinn Political correspondent

Exiled Chinese dissidents alarmed by ‘spy’ arrest of Westminster researcher

Houses of Parliament
The researcher who was arrested had a parliamentary pass and contact with ministers. Photograph: Neil Hall/EPA

Finn Lau’s meeting with a Westminster researcher who was later arrested on suspicion of spying for China lasted just 20 minutes. Nearly a year later he is mulling the potential consequences.

Lau, an exiled Hong Kong pro-democracy activist with a £100,000 bounty on his head, has a lingering suspicion that some of his ideas for putting more pressure on China appear not to have made it beyond their meeting.

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