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Exiled activist Anna Kwok vows to keep fighting after Hong Kong jails her father
Kwok Yin-sang received an eight-month sentence for attempting to access $11,000 of assets under Hong Kong's 2024 national security law targeting absconders, marking a legal escalation.
- On Thursday, a Hong Kong court sentenced Kwok Yin-sang, 69, to eight months in prison under Article 23, marking the first conviction of a relative of a wanted overseas activist.
- The case arose after a court heard Kwok Yin-sang tried in 2025 to terminate an insurance policy and withdraw roughly $11,000 linked to an 'absconder's' assets.
- Anna Kwok is one of 34 people whom police have listed, with authorities offering a HK$1 million bounty and banning anyone from handling her funds.
- Following the sentencing, advocates said Anna Kwok’s resolve strengthened and rights groups with U.S. officials called the prosecution transnational repression, demanding her father’s immediate release.
- Campaigners say the pattern of questioning family members and sanctions indicates police have questioned at least 50 family members of 19 'absconders' since 2023, while Washington sanctioned six officials in 2025.
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Exiled activist Anna Kwok vows to keep fighting after Hong Kong jails her father
A prominent Hong Kong activist in exile in the U.S. says a court ruling back in Hong Kong to imprison her father for eight months has only made her more determined to fight for the territory and its people.
Father of US-Based Activist Is Sentenced Under National Security Law in Hong Kong
A Hong Kong court on Feb. 24 sentenced the father of a U.S.-based pro-democracy activist to eight months in prison for a national security offense, in a case that has sparked fresh criticism of the Chinese regime’s transnational repression. Kwok Yin-sang, 69, was convicted of “attempting to deal with, directly or indirectly, any funds or other financial assets or economic resources” earlier this month under the city’s 2024 security law. He had p…
Father of US-based Hong Kong activist sentenced to 8 months under security law
A Hong Kong court has sentenced the father of a U.S.-based activist to eight months in prison in the first case brought against the relative of a pro-democracy activist wanted by the city's authorities under a national security law
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