National security police have brought in two relatives of a Hong Kong fugitive to help with an ongoing investigation, the Post has learned.
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A source familiar with the case said officers invited a male and female relative of opposition figure Carmen Lau Ka-man, 29, a former Wong Tai Sin district councillor, to be questioned at a police station in Sha Tin on Monday. They were expected to leave at noon.
Police placed bounties of HK$1 million (US$128,690) on six more activists in December, including Lau, for allegedly violating the national security law, bringing the total to nineteen opposition figures on the wanted list.
Lau, now an advocacy associate at the Hong Kong Democracy Council and thought to be residing in the United Kingdom, has been charged with inciting secession and colluding with external forces.
Five others were added to the wanted list in December: political commentator Chung Kim-wah, 64; Joseph Tay, a 62-year-old former actor and founder of Canada-based NGO Hongkonger Station; Tony Chung Hon-lam, 23, former convenor of Studentlocalism; Victor Ho Leung-mau, 69, a YouTuber; and Chloe Cheung Hei-ching, 19, from the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation.
Lau in December said she was concerned her being placed on the wanted list would isolate the diaspora community and cause them to be wary of the democratic movement.