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Kwok Yin-sang, 69, was found guilty of “attempting to deal with, directly or indirectly, any funds or other financial assets or economic resources” under Hong Kong’s Safeguarding National Security Ordinance, commonly referred to as Article 23. He had pleaded not guilty.

Kwok is the first person to be convicted for this offense since the law came into effect in 2024. The sweeping legislation targets political crimes such as treason, insurrection, and sabotage, building upon <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/china/new-security-law-ushers-authoritarian-era-for-hong-kong-3411803">similar legislation</a> imposed by Beijing in 2020 in the wake of massive pro-democracy, anti-Chinese Communist Party (CCP) protests in Hong Kong.

According to the court document, Kwok was accused of attempting to withdraw the funds of roughly $11,360 by terminating a life and personal accident insurance policy held in his daughter’s name.

His daughter, Anna Kwok, or Kwok Fung-yee, left Hong Kong in January 2020 and now works as the executive director of the Hong Kong Democracy Council, a Washington-based human rights group.

Anna Kwok is among the dozens of self-exiled activists whom national security police in Hong Kong are aiming to bring back to China, a move <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/china/lawmakers-condemn-hong-kong-officials-for-placing-bounties-on-activists-including-american-5547548">denounced</a> by U.S. officials as transnational repression.

In 2023, Hong Kong authorities <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/beijing-offers-bounties-for-8-human-rights-dissidents-living-in-us-australia-uk-5372643">offered</a> a bounty of HK$1 million (US$128,000) for information leading to her arrest, citing a violation of the Beijing-imposed national security law.

Prosecutors argue that, since Anna Kwok is a fugitive, any dealings with her insurance policy, whether direct or indirect, are illegal, according to the court document.

Kwok Yin-sang now faces up to seven years in prison, with sentencing scheduled for Feb. 26.

Shortly after her father’s conviction, Anna Kwok took to social media to decry the charges against him, calling them “fabricated, baseless, and incoherent fiction.”

“I am not and have never been the owner of this policy,” she wrote on X. “Nor have I exchanged, received, or sought ‘funds or other financial assets or economic resources’ from my father, my family, any individual, or entity in Hong Kong.”

She criticized Hong Kong authorities for targeting her father in retaliation against her and her pro-democracy advocacy.

“This is hostage taking. This is transnational repression,” she said, noting that such actions would not deter her from continuing her activism.

“As the Hong Kong and Chinese governments wage war on love, hope, and human dignity, I will continue to fight for my family, for the 1,934 political prisoners in Hong Kong, and for a free Hong Kong.”

Anna Kwok’s brother, <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/china/hong-kong-police-arrest-2-family-members-of-wanted-democracy-activist-kwok-fung-yee-5851817" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">arrested</a> alongside her father in April 2025 on similar national security violations, is currently out on bail.

The conviction of the elder Kwok, who was the first relative of a wanted activist to face such charges, has drawn criticism from international human rights organizations.

“Punishing a 68-year-old father for his daughter’s peaceful activism is an alarming act of collective punishment that has no place under international human rights law,” Elaine Pearson, Asia director at Human Rights Watch, said in a statement on X.

Ray Wong, policy and strategy adviser at Hong Kong Watch, said that with a growing number of pro-democracy activists forced into exile, the Hong Kong government has turned to target their family members.

“This is a common tactic used by the Chinese Communist Party on the Mainland, and just further illustrates the convergence in repressive police tactics between Hong Kong and Mainland China,” Wong said in a statement.

Hong Kong authorities have <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/china/tragic-injustice-sentence-of-hong-kong-media-mogul-jimmy-lai-sparks-global-condemnation-5982731" target="_blank" rel="noopener">faced</a> mounting international backlash this week after the city’s high court sentenced Jimmy Lai, a 78-year-old pro-democracy media mogul, to 20 years in prison, the harshest sentence ever under the Beijing-imposed national security law.

As of January, Hong Kong authorities have charged 98 individuals under this law over the past five years, with 78 convicted, according to a white paper released by the Chinese State Council on Feb. 10. The policy document emphasized that Beijing has “fundamental responsibility” for managing national security matters in the Asian financial hub.

From <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/china/hong-kong-convicts-father-of-us-based-activist-under-national-security-law-5984046">The Epoch Times</a>

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