香港驻伦敦经贸办指挥对在英流亡异见人士实施秘密“影子警察”式监控
Hong Kong London trade office directed covert 'shadow policing' surveillance against exiled UK dissidents
- 英国法庭文件披露，香港驻伦敦经济贸易办事处（HKETO）出资资助针对在英香港异见人士的监控行动。 British court filings exposed the London Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (HKETO) funded surveillance operations against UK-based Hong Kong dissidents.
- 经贸办官员雇佣私家侦探并买通一名英国边境管理局官员，搜集民主派人士的机密情报。 Trade office officials hired private investigators and compromised a UK Border Force officer to gather intelligence on pro-democracy figures.
- 证实北京正将双边经贸驻外机构作为实施域外跨境镇压的秘密平台。 Demonstrates the use of bilateral trade missions as covert platforms for extraterritorial transnational repression.
据英国广播公司（BBC）报道，英国检方披露，香港驻伦敦经济贸易办事处雇员曾雇佣私家侦探对流亡英国的香港民主派活动人士展开跟踪监控，并强行闯入一处私人住宅。英国反恐警察随后逮捕了与该经贸办存在关联的三名涉案人员，并依据英国《国家安全法》对其提起外国干涉罪指控。
此次逮捕行动暴露了北京如何将海外经贸派驻机构异化为实施“跨境镇压”与“域外长臂执法”的影子据点。伦敦经贸办非但没有专注于经贸推广，反而沦为海外执法中枢，专职监视异见人士并为香港当局搜集政治情报。该案表明，北京不惜通过“外交特权颠覆”来践踏东道国主权，以此恐吓海外离散社群并扼杀境外的政治反抗声音。
British prosecutors revealed that staff at the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in London hired private investigators to spy on exiled pro-democracy activists and forced entry into a private residence, BBC News reported. British counter-terrorism police arrested three individuals connected to the trade mission, charging them with foreign interference under the UK National Security Act.
The arrests expose how Beijing repurposes overseas commercial delegations for transnational repression and shadow policing. Rather than conducting trade promotion, the London office functioned as an overseas enforcement hub, monitoring dissidents and collecting intelligence for Hong Kong authorities. The case demonstrates Beijing’s willingness to violate host-country sovereignty to intimidate diaspora communities and suppress political dissent abroad.
微博上的民族主义账号将英国警方的调查抨击为“反华政治闹剧”，而在海外离散社群渠道中，关于经贸办资金流向与开销的法庭证据被广泛转发。
Nationalist Weibo accounts labeled British police investigations as 'anti-China political farce,' while diaspora channels widely circulated court details on trade office payments.
大陆官媒仅发布经严格过滤的外交部统一口径通稿，宣称相关指控为“无端诽谤”；而在香港，《国安法》高压之下所有独立媒体的相关报道均遭彻底清洗。
Mainland state media ran strictly sanitized MFA statements declaring the charges 'groundless slander'; Hong Kong independent media coverage was purged under the National Security Law.
根据1996年英国《香港经济贸易办事处法案》，伦敦经贸办享有准外交特权与豁免权，目前英国议员正推动立法予以废除。
The HKETO retains diplomatic privileges in London under the 1996 Hong Kong Economic and Trade Offices Act, which UK lawmakers are now moving to revoke.