The Post also learned Yuan has been married several times and the woman taken in for questioning was his second wife, who holds a foreign passport.
Hong Kong police question relatives of fugitive on wanted list, including lawmaker
A source said the woman, her son and her daughter were questioned by officers from the force’s National Security Department over whether they had contacted Yuan or offered him any financial support.
He added that the force would continue to investigate the local contacts of the eight wanted activists and take action to cut off any help or funding for the group.
On Monday last week, police questioned three of Yuan’s relatives, including his daughter-in-law, Beijing loyalist legislator Eunice Yung Hoi-yan, and her husband Derek Yuen Mi-chang.
Earlier this year, Yung took out a quarter-page advertisement in a local newspaper saying she had cut ties with her father-in-law.
Yuan, 74, who left the city on June 9, 2020, is among eight activists based overseas who are accused of breaching the national security law. Each has a HK$1 million (US$128,280) bounty on their head.
According to a police wanted notice, the fugitive had asked foreign countries to impose sanctions against city officials and judicial members between July 2020 and May this year.
Police said he also launched a referendum to form a “Hong Kong Parliament” to achieve self-determination and allegedly subvert state power.
Police on July 3 announced the unprecedented HK$1 million rewards to anyone with information leading to the arrests of the eight activists.
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Seven of the group have been accused of calling for international sanctions against Hong Kong, a violation of the Beijing-imposed national security law that the government maintains has extraterritorial effect.
Apart from Yuan, the wanted opposition figures are barrister and ex-legislator Dennis Kwok Wing-hang, former lawmakers Nathan Law Kwun-chung and Ted Hui Chi-fung, trade unionist Mung Siu-tat, lawyer Kevin Yam Kin-fung, and activists Finn Lau Cho-dik and Anna Kwok Fung-yee.
They are all currently overseas, with Law said to be living in the United Kingdom.
National security police have arrested or questioned a number of people linked to the wanted eight, including family members, following the announcement of the bounties.
In the past month, a former leader and six ex-members of the now-disbanded opposition party Demosisto were arrested in three operations over alleged fundraising activities backing Law. All seven were released on bail pending further investigation.
Officers also questioned family members of four of the wanted activists. None of them were arrested.
The parents of former lawmaker and lawyer Dennis Kwok Wing-hang, as well as his older brother and sister-in-law, were also investigated on July 20.
Police raided the home of trade unionist Mung Siu-tat’s older brother on July 18 and took him, his wife and their son away for questioning.
Law’s family home at Yat Tung Estate in Tung Chung was visited by police on July 11 and his parents and older brother were detained for questioning.
Mung and Kwok are among the eight suspects.
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