Questions raised about allowing Hong Kong Police to compete in Winnipeg tournament after bounties announced
Canadian researchers and advocates are questioning a decision to allow Hong Kong police officers to compete in the 2023 World Police & Fire Games in Winnipeg as authorities in China place bounties on the heads of pro-democracy legislators, some of which who are living in Canada.
While approximately 300 officers from Hong Kong join an expected 8,500 participants from over 70 countries at the 10-day event in Winnipeg, officials overseas are issuing warrants and offering cash rewards for the return of eight pro-democracy advocates. Margaret McCuaig-Johnston, a researcher at the University of Ottawa, is confused over why neither the Manitoba government, nor Police & Fire Games organization, reconsidered Hong Kong’s involvement when the bounties were announced.
“We saw the repression of the citizens – more than one million citizens of Hong Kong took to the streets in pro-democracy movements over the space of a number of years and then we had the bounties on eight pro-democracy Hong Kong legislators,” she said. “Why would we be rolling out the red carpet and having a big celebration of their prowess?”Held every two years, officers from around the world compete at the Police & Fire Games in a number of events.
Amid reports of widespread human rights violations in Hong Kong as protesters decried national security laws, the federal government suspended its extradition agreement with Hong Kong police in 2020.
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