A former employee of the UK’s Hong Kong consulate said he was beaten and tortured by Chinese secret police after being accused of inciting political unrest in the city.
Simon Cheng, a Hong Kong citizen who worked for the British mission’s business development team, said he was deprived of sleep and chained up as police hey pressed him for information about activists.
The 29-year-old said: “I was shackled, blindfolded and hooded.”
“They said they work for the secret service and that there are no human rights. Then they started the torture.”
Writing about his experience of being held, Mr Cheng said: “Before the interrogations began, they took ‘prisoner photos’ (holding a name plate and being photographed all around in front of the height ruler).
“They tried to connect my iPhone to their computer to extract its content and download a backup (it probably failed as they didn’t get my passcode at that moment), and obtained my biometric information through blood and urine test, full palmprints and fingerprints, etc.
“During the interrogation, I was in a cell siting on a steel ‘tiger chair.’ I had been buckled up on the chair and cannot move.
“I was not allowed to contact my family even after 24 hours.”
During his arrest, Cheng was placed in a detention centre, adding: “Secret police took me out of the detention centre, I was handcuffed, shackled, blindfolded and hooded (so it was hard to breathe). I was not allowed to wear glasses from the very beginning, so I kept feeling dizzy and suffocated.
“They dragged me into the private van, then instructed me to lay on the rear bench seat (trying not let others outside see me). It felt like a kidnapping.
“Sometimes, they ordered me to do the “stress tests”, which includes extreme strength exercise such as “squat” and “chair pose” for countless hours.
“They beat me every time I failed to do so using something like sharpened batons.”
Cheng said he was “speaking out now because the case is relevant to the public interest on knowing the flawed judicial process in mainland China”.
British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab condemned China’s treatment of Cheng, which he said “amounts to torture”.
Raab said he had summoned the Chinese ambassador “to express our outrage,” adding: “We are outraged by the disgraceful mistreatment that Mr Cheng faced when he was in detention in mainland China… and we’ve made clear that we expect the Chinese authorities to review and hold to account those responsible.”
Cheng had been reported missing after he was stopped in China’s border city of Shenzhen and failed to return to work on August 8.
He was detained for 15 days for ‘violating public security management regulations’, police in Shenzhen’s Luohu district said.
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