Hong Kong national security police arrest 2 men over alleged links to now-disbanded fund for protesters, third suspect sought

Police link pair to 612 Humanitarian Fund, accusing them of conspiring to collude with a foreign country or with external elements to endanger national security

Source says one of them, a doctor, accused of running a ‘hidden medical treatment room’ for demonstrators during 2019 protests; flat of third suspect also raided

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National security police seized evidence in a series of raids in the morning. Photo: Sam Tsang

Published: 1:24pm, 29 Aug 2023Updated: 8:41pm, 29 Aug 2023

Hong Kong national security police have arrested a doctor and a social worker as part of an investigation into a now-disbanded fund for demonstrators who took part in the 2019 anti-government protests, the Post has learned.

Police searched the flat of a third suspect, who is being sought in connection with the case but is not in the city at present, at the Jadewater residential block in Aberdeen around lunchtime on Tuesday and seized more than 10 boxes of evidence.

The man was an associate consultant in anaesthesiology and his office at Queen Mary Hospital in Pok Fu Lam was also raided, an insider said.

Officers from the force’s National Security Department, armed with court warrants, raided the residences of the two arrested men, aged 33 and 59, in Tai Po in the morning.

The pair were arrested on suspicion of conspiring to collude with a foreign country or with external elements to endanger national security and incite riots, according to police.

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