.@Telegraph exclusive: #China continues to harass exiles on British soil, say victims. These threats are a way to “silence them from using their voices to raise awareness of #humanrights violations,” says @FrancesEveCHRD @CHRDnet telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/08/1… @TelegraphWorld
.@AzizIsaElkun, a British Uighur who has campaigned from the UK about #China’s internment camps for Muslim minorities, revealed he had been sent msgs from his mother, apparently under duress via WhatsApp from Turkey & Hong Kong numbers. He believes it’s a warning to silence him
.@SimonCh15198572, a former British consulate employee in Hong Kong who was tortured by Chinese secret police, said he had been followed at least three times in the last two weeks
A threatening email also arrived in @SimonCh15198572’s inbox this week: “Chinese agents will find you and bring you back,” read the subject line. In the body, the message said: “Only a matter of time.” Cheng, granted asylum in the UK, has been vocal about eroding freedoms in #HK
Related reading: Our story from last yr about @AzizIsaElkun‘s search for his friends, family missing in #Xinjiang, incl his mother, now 78. For 3 years, they’ve had no direct, unsupervised communication, leading him to fear the worst - internment camps telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/05/1…
Also from last yr - what @SimonCh15198572 says he endured at the hands of Chinese secret police telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/11/2… #humanrights @TelegraphWorld @Telegraph
