A former employee of the British consulate in Hong Kong has claimed Chinese police tortured him during a two-week detention in August to extract information about the territory’s protesters and UK diplomats.
In a statement published on Facebook on Wednesday, Cheng Man Kit, also known as Simon Cheng, claimed he was strapped in a spreadeagled position for hours, beaten, deprived of sleep, blindfolded and hooded during lengthy interrogations in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen after Chinese police detained him while he was attempting to return to Hong Kong.
Mr Cheng also said he heard what he believed to be the interrogation of other participants in Hong Kong protests at the mainland Chinese detention centre where he was held.