Hong Kong places ‘bounties’ on activists abroad

Democracy activist Nathan Law attends a demonstration in Berlin during the visit of China’s foreign minister to Germany in September 2020. The Hong Kong government has offered rewards of HK$1 million for information leading to his arrest and those of seven other activists. (Photo: AFP)

HONG KONG: Hong Kong’s leader has called on eight overseas activists to turn themselves in, a day after police put out bounties on them for violating the Chinese territory’s national security law.

Police on Monday offered rewards of HK$1 million ($128,000) each for information leading to the arrests of eight prominent democracy activists based abroad, accusing them of crimes such as subversion and colluding with foreign forces.