🌏 Pursued Abroad|跨境追緝

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They are former legislators and district councillors, lawyers, a trade unionist, a pollster, journalists, YouTube commentators, students, and the organisers of an unofficial diaspora vote. Some are citizens of the United States, Canada and Australia, and some were never residents of Hong Kong at all. They live in Britain, America, Canada, Australia and Taiwan, and most of them are doing in exile what they did at home: speaking, writing, testifying and organising.

Since July 2023, Hong Kong's national security police have issued arrest warrants, with cash rewards attached, for 34 people living abroad. The Hong Kong government alleges secession, subversion and collusion with foreign forces, but almost every allegation it has published describes things they said, lobbied for, testified about or voted in. None of them has been arrested, and no reward has been reported paid. Because the government cannot reach them, the pressure falls on the people it can reach: their parents, siblings and cousins in Hong Kong.

This page is a record of the people and of what has been done to them. It is not a wanted list. It reprints no police notices, and it gives countries rather than locations.

"I am just a Hong Konger speaking out for Hong Kongers – that's all." — Nathan Law, after the first warrants in 2023 (CNN via KRDO)

The people | 他們是誰

Freely licensed photographs exist for only some of the people named. Christopher Mung, Carmen Lau, Tony Chung, Chloe Cheung, Victor Ho, Joe Tay, Johnny Fok, Tony Choi and the fifteen people named in 2025 have none we can use. Every portrait above shows its subject in public life: speaking, testifying, campaigning. Several were taken before their subjects left Hong Kong.

Lawmakers and lawyers

Nathan Law 羅冠聰 led students in the 2014 Umbrella Movement and co-founded Demosistō. In 2016, at 23, he became the youngest person ever elected to the Legislative Council, and he was disqualified over his oath a year later. He left Hong Kong on 2 July 2020, the day after the National Security Law took effect, and was granted asylum in Britain in 2021. He has since testified to the US Congress and written two books, Freedom: How We Lose It and How We Fight Back (2021) and When the Wind Blows (2024) (Wikipedia). After the warrant he warned: "There will be people who are incentivized to give out my information, my whereabouts" (NBC News).

Dennis Kwok 郭榮鏗 is a barrister and a founding member of the Civic Party. He represented the legal profession in LegCo from 2012 until Beijing's disqualification of four legislators in November 2020, which led fifteen pro-democracy colleagues to resign in protest. In the US he has held scholarly posts at Georgetown and Harvard's Kennedy School. Both the New York City Bar and the New York State Bar condemned the warrant against him (NYC Bar; NYSBA).

Ted Hui 許智峯 is a solicitor. He was a district councillor from 2012 and a Democratic Party legislator for Hong Kong Island from 2016 to 2020. He left in December 2020 while on bail over a 2019 protest, and was admitted as a solicitor in Australia, which granted him and his family protection visas in August 2025 (ABC). His answer to the bounty: "I will continue to live an ordinary, normal life" (SBS).

Kevin Yam 任建峰, an Australian citizen, practised financial-regulatory and litigation law in Hong Kong for more than 17 years and co-founded the Progressive Lawyers Group in 2015. He is now a senior fellow at Georgetown Law's Center for Asian Law (Lawfare). "It's my duty ... to continue to speak out against the crackdown that is going on right now," he said (SBS). When letters offering the reward reached his neighbours in 2025, he said: "I will continue to live my everyday life. … I will not voluntarily return to Hong Kong before it is free." (ABC).

Carmen Lau 劉珈汶 won a district council seat in 2019 and resigned in 2021 rather than take the new loyalty oath, refusing to be a "pawn of tyranny". In Britain she works with the Hong Kong Democracy Council on political prisoners (HKFP), and in 2026 she testified at the UN Human Rights Council (ISHR). "The bounty is because they want to silence us and they want to instill fear among our diaspora. … I will just continue my work because if I back down or if I really silence myself, that's what they want." (NBC News).

A unionist and a pollster

Christopher Mung 蒙兆達 spent decades in the labour movement and helped lead the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions before it was forced to disband in 2021. In Britain he founded Hong Kong Labour Rights Monitor. Unions in six countries and the International Trade Union Confederation asked for the warrant against him to be withdrawn (HKLRM). When his passport was cancelled in 2024 he said: "You can cancel my passport, but you can never cancel my identity as a Hong Kong citizen." (VOA).

Chung Kim-wah 鍾劍華 is a former social worker and social-policy scholar whose research backed universal pensions and standard working hours. He was deputy chief executive of the Hong Kong Public Opinion Research Institute, and left for Britain in 2022 after police scrutiny of its polling, saying Hong Kong had become a place where one could "no longer live normally and without intimidation" (HKFP). He writes political commentary from exile.

Young organisers and advocates

Finn Lau 劉祖廸, a surveyor, wrote anonymously in 2019 as "I want Lam Chau" (我要攬炒), proposing that Hongkongers lobby foreign governments to sanction officials. He founded Hong Kong Liberty and has lived in London since 2020 (HKFP, 2020). "This sort of bounty or safety risks will not deter me from continuing advocating for Hong Kong human rights and democracy." (NBC News).

Anna Kwok 郭鳳儀 ran crowd-funded international campaigns during the 2019 protests under an online alias. She is now executive director of the Washington-based Hong Kong Democracy Council, and has testified to the US Congressional-Executive Commission on China in 2023 and 2026 (CECC). Her father became the first relative of a wanted activist to be jailed (see below).

Simon Cheng 鄭文傑 worked on trade and investment at the British Consulate-General in Hong Kong. In August 2019 he was detained in mainland China, where he says he was shackled, hooded, deprived of sleep and made to record confessions. Britain granted him asylum in 2020, and he founded Hongkongers in Britain to help new arrivals settle (Wikipedia). His response to the bounty: "Being hunted by China (Hong Kong)'s secret police, under a one-million-dollar bounty, is a lifelong honor" (Reuters via Himalayan Times).

Frances Hui 許穎婷 joined the student group Scholarism as a teenager. As a journalism student in Boston she wrote the 2019 column "I am from Hong Kong, Not China". In 2022 she was reportedly the first Hongkonger granted asylum by the US federal government (Wikipedia). She leads We The Hongkongers and has said her advocacy will not stop.

Joey Siu 邵嵐 was born in the US and grew up in Hong Kong. She was a university student-union leader in 2019, and in 2023 became the first US citizen made a fugitive under the National Security Law. She has testified to two US Senate committees (Wikipedia). "My response to the Chinese Communist regime's intimidation is short: I will never be silenced, I will never back down." (Nikkei Asia).

Tony Chung 鍾翰林 led the student group Studentlocalism. Arrested outside the US Consulate in 2020, he was jailed for 3 years 7 months, at the time the youngest person imprisoned under the National Security Law. After his release under supervision he described "deep surveillance and immense pressure", and offers of money to inform on fellow activists. He left at the end of 2023 and was granted refugee status in Britain in 2025. "I already miss Hong Kong. It was a very difficult decision to make." (Guardian).

Chloe Cheung 張晞晴 moved to Britain in 2020, aged 15. At 19 she became the youngest person ever targeted, and in 2025 she gave evidence on transnational repression to Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights (CFHK). "How fragile, incompetent, and cowardly does a regime have to be to believe that I, a 19-year-old, ordinary Hongkonger, can 'endanger' and 'divide' the country? … Even in the face of a powerful enemy, I will continue to do what I believe is right." (CBC/AP).

Journalists and commentators

Victor Ho 何良懋, a Canadian citizen, is a former editor-in-chief of the Vancouver edition of Sing Tao Daily. He told CBC he would not be deterred (CBC). Joe Tay 鄭敬基, also a Canadian citizen, is a former singer and TVB/RTHK actor who co-founded the YouTube channel HongKonger Station. In 2025 he stood as a federal Conservative candidate. Canada's election-security task force identified an online repression campaign against him during the race (CBC). Elmer Yuen 袁弓夷 is a businessman and online commentator who lobbied Washington for sanctions in 2019–20. He co-founded the effort that became the overseas "Hong Kong Parliament", and of the 2025 warrant he remarked: "It helps us with a lot of advertising" (CBC). Johnny Fok 霍嘉誌 and Tony Choi 蔡明達 co-founded the current-affairs YouTube channel 「升旗易得道」.

The diaspora vote

In May 2025, Hongkongers abroad held an unofficial online election for a "Hong Kong Parliament", casting about 15,700 valid votes (CBC). Two months later police issued warrants for its organisers and elected members, and in December 2025 the group was banned. Membership or support in Hong Kong now carries up to 14 years (info.gov.hk). The fifteen people newly named were:

• Organisers: Chan Lai-chun 陳麗珍, Feng Chongyi 馮崇義, Sasha Gong 龔小夏, Ng Man-yan 吳文昕 and Tsang Wai-fan 曾偉藩.
• Elected members: Chin Po-fun 錢寶芬, Paul Ha 夏海俊, Hau Chung-yu 侯中宇, Colin Ho 何永友, Alan Keung 姜嘉偉, Tony Lam 林千淦, Agnes Ng 吳文君, Wong Chun-wah 黃振華, Wong Sau-wo 黃修和 and Zhang Xinyan 張信燕.

Several have no connection to Hong Kong residence at all:

• Feng Chongyi is an Australian China-studies scholar who was once detained in China himself (Chinese PEN).
• Sasha Gong, a US citizen, once directed Voice of America's China Branch. She says she is "not a Hong Kong resident" (CBC).
• Zhang Xinyan is a mainland Chinese dissident and UN-recognised refugee. She was detained in Thailand in 2026 and blocked from a resettlement flight, then reached Canada in August 2026 after pressure from Ottawa and the UN refugee agency (HRW; CP24/AFP).

Chin Po-fun, a retired correctional-services officer, had her government pension stopped (The Collective HK). Several of the fifteen have almost no public record. That is part of the point: this round reached ordinary participants in an overseas vote, not just well-known figures.

Not in the count: Agnes Chow 周庭, Demosistō co-founder and former political prisoner, left for Canada and did not report on bail at the end of 2023. Police declared her wanted in February 2024 and said she "will be pursued for life", but announced no reward (SCMP).

What has been done to their families | 家人的代價

The exiles are out of reach, so the measures that bite are aimed at the people around them. Human Rights Watch says authorities "have sought to intimidate dozens of their family members, primarily by interrogating them", which it calls "collective punishment, prohibited by international human rights law" (HRW, May 2025). The Hong Kong Democracy Council counted 38 relatives and 12 associates taken in for questioning by the end of 2024 (EU annual report).

A father jailed. In April 2025 police arrested Kwok Yin-sang, Anna Kwok's father, and her brother. Her brother was released without charge. Her father was charged with trying to deal with an "absconder's" funds: he had tried to cancel an insurance policy he bought for his daughter when she was two, worth about HK$88,609. "I paid for the policy. She is no longer in Hong Kong, so I canceled it," he told police (The Standard). He was convicted in February 2026 and jailed for eight months, the first person convicted of this offence. The magistrate said: "There is no such thing as … collective punishment" (NPR). His daughter called it "guilt by blood, this is hostage taking. This is transnational repression." Before the sentencing she told Reuters: "Asian dads are not very known for showing affection with hugs and I realized this year, I actually … don't think I've ever hugged my dad since I became an adult" (Reuters via WDEZ).

Relatives questioned. Parents, siblings, in-laws and cousins of at least sixteen of the people named have been taken in for questioning since 2023. They include the families of Nathan Law, Dennis Kwok, Christopher Mung, Ted Hui, Frances Hui, Simon Cheng, Chung Kim-wah, Carmen Lau, Tony Chung and Joe Tay, and in 2025 the families of four "Hong Kong Parliament" members (HKFP; RFA; HRW). The summonses tend to follow new warrants or bursts of advocacy abroad. Cutting ties publicly has not protected anyone. Simon Cheng told his parents: "If needed, criticise me and cut me off… My hope is that my parents can enjoy a dignified, peaceful, and serene old age." (HKFP). Chung Kim-wah asked: "My brothers and sisters are all adults, so why should they be held responsible for what I do?" (RFA).

Neighbours, inboxes and spies abroad.

• Letters to neighbours. In early 2025, letters copying the police notices reached the neighbours of Carmen Lau and Tony Chung in Britain, and of Kevin Yam in Australia, inviting them to deliver the activist to the Chinese embassy (NBC News; ABC). The Hong Kong government said it "would not issue anonymous letters"; no sender has been identified.
• Sexualised fakes. Later in 2025 the attacks turned sexual: a sexualised poster targeting one activist's wife, and digitally altered explicit images of Carmen Lau sent to her former neighbours. "Sexualised disinformation has long been used to silence women who challenge authoritarian power," Lau said (Reuters via MarketScreener).
• A Canadian MP's remark. In Canada a sitting MP suggested people could take Joe Tay to the Chinese consulate to claim the reward. He withdrew as a candidate after the RCMP said it was looking into the remark (RCI).
• Spying in Britain. In May 2026 a London jury convicted the office manager of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office and a former UK Border Force officer of assisting a foreign intelligence service by researching UK-based dissidents. They were jailed for 8 and 10 years (CPS).

The wider community. In a 2026 survey of more than 1,000 Hongkongers in Britain, 86% said that joining public events there puts their families in Hong Kong at risk (Hong Kong Watch). The pressure built for 34 people reaches hundreds of thousands.

The record | 紀錄

Each round paired court warrants with police reward notices, and every reward has been renewed rather than allowed to lapse. The Hong Kong Police's own list, checked on 20 October 2026, still shows exactly 34 cases, with no name added since July 2025 (police.gov.hk). Names below use the official Chinese forms. Several are widely misspelled elsewhere; 霍嘉誌, 劉珈汶, 張晞晴 and 陳麗珍 are correct.

Date	People newly named	Reward announced	Running total
3 Jul 2023 (info.gov.hk)	Nathan Law 羅冠聰, Dennis Kwok 郭榮鏗, Ted Hui 許智峯, Kevin Yam 任建峰, Elmer Yuen 袁弓夷, Christopher Mung 蒙兆達, Finn Lau 劉祖廸, Anna Kwok 郭鳳儀	HK$1 million each	8
14 Dec 2023 (info.gov.hk)	Simon Cheng 鄭文傑, Frances Hui 許穎婷, Joey Siu 邵嵐, Johnny Fok 霍嘉誌, Tony Choi 蔡明達	HK$1 million each	13
24 Dec 2024 (info.gov.hk)	Carmen Lau 劉珈汶, Tony Chung 鍾翰林, Chung Kim-wah 鍾劍華, Chloe Cheung 張晞晴, Victor Ho 何良懋, Joe Tay 鄭敬基	HK$1 million each	19
25 Jul 2025 (info.gov.hk)	Fifteen organisers and members of the "Hong Kong Parliament" (above); four people already named were also re-charged	HK$200,000 each	34

When the first eight were named, Chief Executive John Lee said: "The only way to end their destiny of being an abscondee who will be pursued for life is to surrender." (info.gov.hk transcript).

How the law reaches abroad | 法律如何越境

• The claim to reach anyone, anywhere. Article 38 of the 2020 National Security Law applies it to offences "committed against the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region from outside the Region by a person who is not a permanent resident of the Region". Article 37 covers permanent residents abroad. Officials call this "protective jurisdiction". The UN Human Rights Committee faulted its "lack of clarity" in 2022 and called for the law's repeal (UN CCPR).
• The "absconder" regime. Under the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance (in force 23 March 2024), the Security Secretary can declare a wanted person abroad a "specified absconder". That cancels their Hong Kong passport, suspends professional qualifications and removes them from company boards. It also makes it a crime, punishable by up to seven years, for anyone in Hong Kong to give them money, deal with their money, rent them property or go into business with them. 29 of the 34 have been specified, in three rounds: 12 June 2024, 24 December 2024 and 4 August 2025 (info.gov.hk). We have found no appeal route in the text.
• Assets. In February 2025 a court granted an order confiscating Ted Hui's assets without a trial, under rules that require only that he "could have been convicted" (info.gov.hk).
• But no way to bring anyone back. The UK, US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Germany and France all suspended extradition with Hong Kong in 2020. Interpol's constitution bars it from political cases. Hong Kong officials have conceded they cannot arrest the exiles unless they return. Jurisdiction without enforcement is why the weight falls on families, documents and money still inside Hong Kong.

How the world has responded | 國際回應

• Every round has been condemned. Britain, the United States, Australia, Canada and the EU have issued statements, each most forcefully once its own citizens or residents were named. In August 2025 the G7 jointly called the practice "transnational repression" that "undermines national security, state sovereignty, human rights, and the safety of communities" (GOV.UK).
• Only Washington has sanctioned anyone. In March 2025 the US sanctioned six Hong Kong officials, including the Secretary for Justice and the Police Commissioner, citing the targeting of "19 pro-democracy activists… including a U.S. citizen and four other U.S. residents" (State Department). As one British MP told the Commons in March 2026, "the UK, which used to run Hong Kong, has sanctioned absolutely nobody" (Hansard).
• Protection. Britain, Australia and Canada have granted asylum, refugee status or resettlement to several of those named. Britain also convicted the Hong Kong trade office's London manager and a Border Force officer of spying on dissidents, and Canada's foreign-influence registry took effect in August 2026.
• Hong Kong's answer to every statement has been the same: extraterritoriality "is in fact a common feature of national security laws", and "No country should harbour criminals" (info.gov.hk).

What comes next | 接下來

• November 2026: Interpol's General Assembly meets in Hong Kong. Advocates are pressing Interpol to confirm that Red Notices will not be used against recognised victims of transnational repression. They note it "is offering no assurance that it has not received Red Notice requests against these activists since the bounties were imposed in 2023" (Hong Kong Watch).
• 11 and 23 December 2026: the rewards from the December 2023 and December 2024 rounds expire. Every reward so far has been renewed.
• The likely direction: fewer new names, and more pressure on the people around them. The 2025 group ban and the conviction of Anna Kwok's father give police new routes to prosecute supporters and relatives inside Hong Kong.

We will update this page as events unfold.

Help complete this record

This record is incomplete. Most of the people named in 2025 have almost no public profile, and much of what happens to families is never reported. If you can contribute a freely licensed photograph, a correction, or testimony (yours, or that of someone who has asked for it to be recorded), please see Participation. We do not publish anyone's location or details about their relatives without their consent.

Sources

Official record (cited as the Hong Kong government's own statements and allegations):

• Hong Kong Police, National Security Department wanted-persons list (EN / 中文), checked 20 Oct 2026. A dated copy is kept in the archive's private records; we do not republish the notices.
• HKSAR Government press releases: 3 Jul 2023, 4 Jul 2023 (John Lee), 14 Dec 2023, 12 Jun 2024, 24 Dec 2024, 24 Dec 2024 (absconders), 18 Feb 2025, 25 Jul 2025, 4 Aug 2025, 2 Dec 2025; news.gov.hk 中文, 25 Jul 2025 (official Chinese names).

Journalism and reports:

• HKFP: explainer on the six named in Dec 2024; Simon Cheng's family questioned; Finn Lau profile, 2020.
• NBC News (Jul 2023); NBC News on Carmen Lau (2025); CNN via KRDO; Reuters via Himalayan Times; Reuters via WDEZ and NPR (Kwok Yin-sang); Reuters via MarketScreener (sexualised images); The Standard.
• Guardian: Tony Chung (Dec 2023); CBC/AP (Dec 2024); CBC (Jul 2025); CBC: Joe Tay campaign; RCI.
• ABC: Ted Hui protection visa; ABC: letters about Kevin Yam; SBS.
• VOA (passports, 2024); RFA (Chung Kim-wah's family); Nikkei Asia: Joey Siu; SCMP: Agnes Chow; CP24/AFP: Zhang Xinyan.
• Human Rights Watch: families targeted (May 2025), Kwok conviction (Feb 2026), Thailand (Jul 2026); Amnesty International (Feb 2026); Hong Kong Watch survey (May 2026) and on Interpol (Jul 2026).

Governments and international bodies:

• G7 Rapid Response Mechanism statement (Aug 2025); US sanctions fact sheet (Mar 2025); UK Commons, 3 Mar 2026; Crown Prosecution Service: HKETO case; UN Human Rights Committee, CCPR/C/CHN-HKG/CO/4 (2022); EU annual report on Hong Kong (2026).

Photo credits

All images are freely licensed and self-hosted. None is a news-agency photograph or a police notice.

• London march, 2025: DanielMichaelPerry, Wikimedia Commons, CC0.
• Nathan Law, Finn Lau and Simon Cheng (2022): Jindřich Nosek (NoJin), Wikimedia Commons (Law, Lau, Cheng), CC BY-SA 4.0.
• Dennis Kwok, 2022: Committee to Protect Journalists, Flickr, CC BY 2.0.
• Ted Hui, 2026: Yu Chu Chin, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
• Kevin Yam, 2015: inmediahk, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0.
• Anna Kwok, 2022: video still, Reason TV, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0.
• Frances Hui, and Joey Siu with Frances Hui, 2024: Adam Jackman, US House Select Committee on the CCP, Wikimedia Commons (1, 2), public domain.
• Elmer Yuen, 2023: video still, Voice of America, Wikimedia Commons, public domain.
• Chung Kim-wah, 2021: Iris Tong, Voice of America, Wikimedia Commons, public domain.
• Legislative Council chamber, 2024: Hoben7599, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0.
• Taipei rally, 2020: KOKUYO, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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