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Arrested in China last August, after a visit to Shenzhen, a former employee of the British Consulate in Hong Kong claims to have been tortured by the secret police of the Beijing regime.
With a Hong Kong passport, the young Simon Cheng disappeared on August 8, 2019 after traveling to Shenzhen, a border town of the Special Administrative Region, located in southern China. Beijing later announced that the consular employee was being held for 15 days. Reason: he would have at the time violated a law on public security.
Released since then, Mr. Cheng on Wednesday accused the Chinese Communist regime's secret police of torturing him for extorting information. Their interest was, he says in a long post posted on his personal Facebook page, about the demonstrations that shake the former British colony for many months, since the famous draft law on extradition.
" I am speaking now, because this case is relevant to public opinion, " writes Mr. Cheng, who says he was questioned about his role in the protests, the role of London and what he knew about possible participation of Chinese. In interrogation, blindfolded, he would have been deprived of sleep, forced to remain several hours in uncomfortable positions, hanged by the hands.
Reacting to the BBC , British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said the testimony was credible in his eyes, and that the reported facts were "acts of torture ." He said he summoned the Chinese ambassador to London to denounce " shameful and scandalous behavior by the Chinese authorities ", in violation of international law.
According to the Chinese Foreign Ministry, which had to comment on the case on Wednesday, Simon Cheng's rights were " guaranteed " by the police. The demonstrations in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region are almost daily for five months. The participants denounce Beijing's growing influence over the affairs of the autonomous territory.
With agencies