Chung Kim-wah, Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Hong Kong Public Opinion Research Institute (HKPORI), announced on April 24 that he was leaving Hong Kong for the UK. He posted on social media: “I Don’t want to be a deserter, but I have to avoid tyranny.” Before leaving Hong Kong, Chung Kim-wah and HKPORI were repeatedly pressured by the Hong Kong Government and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) ’s mouthpiece media. He was repeatedly summoned by the police under the Hong Kong National Security Law and was followed by unidentified vehicles.
After arriving in the UK, Chung Kim-wah accepted an interview with The Epoch Times’s Precious Dialogues program on April 25. He said he decided to leave Hong Kong in February this year because he could no longer speak safely and had to leave before being accused of some wrongdoing by the regime. “I don’t want to lose my freedom to think and speak, I don’t want my elderly parents to worry about unfortunate events that may happen to me, or to visit me in a detention center, these are the hardest thing for me to bear.”
