Detained British Consulate General in China released Detention deadline Return to Hong Kong on August 24, 18:39
When a staff member of the British Consulate General in Hong Kong made a business trip to mainland China, the police announced that they had been released on the 24th due to a police detention.
A 28-year-old man with a Hong Kong citizen who is a local employee of the British Consulate General in Hong Kong was detained by Chinese police for violating security laws on a business trip back to Shenzhen on the mainland of China this month. And was punished for 15 days of administrative detention.
On the 24th, the police announced on the Chinese version of Weibo that they had been released for detention.
Prior to this, the Chinese Communist Party newspaper “UMG Jibo” reported on July 22 that this employee was punished for being involved in the spring of sale.
The police have not touched on the specific content of the violation of the law, but "he admits the illegal fact".
The staff's family commented, “He has already returned to Hong Kong and has met with the consular officer and friends and there is no injury. First, I want to rest him.”
In Hong Kong, protests that go against the government continue, but at a facility that manages access to mainland China between Hong Kong and Shenzhen, people who have recently come to or do not have photos of protests, etc. A place to check out smartphones, etc. was established.
There have been cases where Japanese people have been interrogated for a long time, and concerns about the increased monitoring of traffic to and from mainland China have been restrained by the staff of the Consulate General.
* Shenzhen = (Eccentric river)