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AND State Department The sanctioned six authorities in Beijing and Hong Kong, who State Secretary Marco Rubio said they “involved in actions or policies that degraded Hong Kong’s autonomy, including in connection with transnational repression that target individuals residing in the United States.”
Rubio announced on Monday that actions “show Trump administration Dedication to calculate the answers to deprives of people in Hong Kong from protected rights and freedom or who commit the acts of transnational repression to US soil or against US persons. ”
Those sanctioned include Sonny Chi Kwong Au-General Secretary for the National Security Committee at Hong Kong-i Raymond Chak Yee Siu, a police commissioner of Hong Kong police. The other four sanctioned were identified as Dong Jingwei, Dick Chung Chun Wong, Margaret Wing Lan Chiu and Paul Ting Kwok Lam.
“Beijing and Hong Kong have used extraterritorial laws on Hong Kong to intimidate, silence and harass 19 activists for democracy who were forced to escape abroad, including an American citizen and four US residents,” said State Department.
Raymond Chak Yee Siu, right, who is a police commissioner of police forces in Hong Kong, accepts his colleague during the passing parade of the Police Faculty of Police in Hong Kong on March 29, 2025 in Hong Kong in China. (Hou Yu/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images)
Lam, according to State Department, “is the secretary for justice, Hong Kong In the category of ministers of the regional government and is responsible for or included in the development, adoption or implementation of the National Security Act. ”
Last year, Human rights watch said “The protection of the National Security Regulations punishes peaceful speech and activism of civil society with severe prison sentences, extends police powers and weak rights for the process.”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, shown here with President Donald Trump during a cabinet meeting at the White House on March 24th, said the actions announced on Monday “show the dedication of Trump’s administration to hold responsible people in Hong Kong from protected rights and freedom or commit transnational repression on US or us. (Reuters/Carlos Barria)
“As a result of today’s sanctions related, AK in accordance with the EO 13936, all assets and interests in the property of the sanctioned persons described above in the United States or in possession or control over US persons are blocked and must be reported to a foreign property control department (OFAC),” OFAC), “OFAC).
“In addition, all individuals or entities who have ownership, whether directly or indirectly, 50 percent or more than one or more blocked persons are also blocked,” continued.
Secretary Hong Kong for justice Paul Ting Kwok Lam speaks in Hong Kong in November 2022. (Reuters/Tyrone Siu)
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“All transactions of US persons either within (or transit) united states involving any assets or interests in the property of certain or otherwise blocked persons are prohibited if not approved by a general or special license issued by OFAC or excluded from US sanctions,” states department states. “These prohibitions include giving any contribution or provision of means, goods or services up to, or in favor of any blocked person and receiving any contribution or providing means, goods or services from any such person.”
Fox News’ Nick Kalman contributed to this report.
