Hong Kong fugitive Anna Kwok’s dad guilty of trying to cash out HK$88,000 policy

The father of a wanted Hong Kong activist has been convicted under the city’s domestic national security law for trying to cash out an insurance policy worth more than HK$88,000 in his daughter’s name.West Kowloon Court on Wednesday convicted Kwok Yin-sang of attempting to deal with the financial assets of US-based activist Anna Kwok Fung-yee, despite knowing authorities had classified her as an absconder under the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance.The defendant, 69, is the first person to be found guilty of a non-sedition-related offence under the ordinance, which was enacted in 2024 to fulfil the requirement of Article 23 of the Basic Law, the city’s mini-constitution.Anna Kwok, executive director of the US-based Hong Kong Democracy Council, is wanted by national security police for allegedly colluding with foreign forces by instigating sanctions against the city and mainland China.The 29-year-old is among eight activists who had HK$1 million bounties placed on their heads in 2023 for allegedly violating the Beijing-decreed national security law.The elder Kwok, the proprietor of a local engineering firm, ran into legal trouble after seeking to cash out a life and personal accident insurance policy with AIA International which he bought for his daughter when she was 22 months old.