Asylum seekers who housed Edward Snowden in Hong Kong claim police illegally targeted them but force denies doing so
Lawyers for the group, which includes a former Sri Lankan soldier, say Hong Kong police investigated them rather than their report that Sri Lankan authorities were hunting them down in the city
But Hong Kong police, the legal team said, arrested the asylum seekers instead and suggested their story was made up, an allegation that the police denied in a brief and vague response to the Post on Thursday.
“If Hong Kong ever wanted to show the world that the rule of law is eroding, it could not have acted in a better way,” Marc-André Séguin, one of the Montreal-based lawyers who set up an NGO in Quebec named For The Refugees to support the asylum seekers, said.
Séguin, who is currently visiting Hong Kong, added: “The individuals who witnessed the presence of the Sri Lankan police in Hong Kong were in several instances taken … and interrogated for a number of hours without the presence of a legal counsel and without the possibility to leave.”