Hong Kong’s anti-corruption watchdog in a rare move arrested 72 people Monday for alleged vote-rigging in the city’s legislative election last year. The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) said 68 of them were newly-registered electors in the information technology sector, one of a number of “functional constituencies”. Thirty of the 70 members of the legislature … Read more
Sri Lankan police Sunday formally denied hunting nationals who sheltered fugitive whistleblower Edward Snowden in Hong Kong and said their claims to the contrary could have been made to bolster asylum applications. Police said they had no interest in the two Sri Lankan men, both asylum-seekers, who in 2013 had helped the former US National … Read more
Sri Lankan refugees who sheltered fugitive whistleblower Edward Snowden in Hong Kong have been targeted by agents from their home country, a lawyer and legislators said Thursday. The story of how impoverished refugees helped the former National Security Agency contractor, who in tiated one of the largest data leaks in US history, evade authorities in … Read more