Former Demosisto member taken away for questioning by national security police

National security officers raided the home of Derek Lam Shun-hin, a member of the now-defunct Demosisto, in Sai Ying Pun this morning.

Sources said a number of plainclothes police searched Lam's flat in Sai Ying Pun at around 6 am. Lam was taken away for questioning at around 8 am, but no arrest was made.

This came after national security officers on Wednesday (Jul 12) raided the homes of self-exiled activist Nathan Law Kwun-chung's parents and elder brother at Yat Tung Estate in Tung Chung. It was learned that the police asked them whether they had provided financial support to Law or acted as his agents. 

Former lawmaker Law is among eight overseas-based activists accused of endangering national security who each have a HK$1 million police bounty for information leading to their arrest.

Five members of the defunct Demosisto - including Chu Yan-ho, Ivan Lam Long-yin, William Liu Wai-lim, Arnold Chung Chin-ku and Li Kai-ching - have been arrested recently for conspiracy to collude with foreign forces over the platform which police say provides financial support to overseas fugitives.

All the five were released on bail.

Separately, lawmaker Eunice Yung Hoi-yan said her husband Derek Yuen Mi-chang returned to Hong Kong on Thursday, but the police did not contact them to assist in the investigation over the warrants for the arrest of her estranged activist father-in-law Elmer Yuen Gong-yi.

Yung previously urged all eight wanted overseas-based activists to surrender and said she supports police making arrests.