Ex-BC journalist and democracy activist placed on Chinese ‘wanted’ list
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Aug 18, 2022
Global News
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Most Canadians will never wake up to find a pair of agents with Canada’s national spy agency at their door, but that’s the situation a former newspaper editor living in British Columbia found himself in Wednesday morning.
Victor Ho, the former editor of the Sing Tao Daily, Canada’s largest Chinese-Canadian newspaper, and a Hong Kong democracy activist, was recently placed on a “wanted list” by security officials in Hong Kong, for alleged violations of the territory’s National Security Law.
“Their first question was, ‘Are you safe,'” Ho told Global News of the visit to his Richmond, B.C., home by a pair of officers with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS). The officers, he said, arranged a detailed interview with him later in the week.
“I’m quite safe. Last night I just talked with a security expert here regarding my present situation. That expert said my situation is quite seriously dangerous, because they know the general practice of the Chinese government. So they are advising me to take extra precautions.”
Ho said he has never received any formal communication from Chinese authorities letting him know he was legally sanctioned.
