gospanews.net by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio
«Cardinal Zen was one of the trustees of the beneficial organization, who stopped operating last October. The authorities arrested him together with other promoters of the fund, including the well-known lawyer Margaret Ng, the academic Hui Po-Keung and the songwriter Denise Ho. From what is learned, the investigation of the police concentrates on the possible âcollusionâ of the Fund 612 with foreign forces, in violation of the draconian law on national security imposed by Beijing in the summer of 2020. Zen has long been in the sights of the Chinese government. In January, the pro-Establishment press published four articles in which it was accused of inciting students to turn up to 2019 against a series of government measures».
This is what AsiaNews wrote about the arrest of the Cardinal of the retired Catholic Church, Joseph Zen, 90 years old, stopped last May 11 by the authorities of Hong Kong, of which Diocese has long been the Catholic Bishop. The cardinal was arrested by the police of national Chinese security with the accusation of âcollusion with foreign forcesâ in relation to his role as administrator of the â612 Humanitarian Relief Fundâ, who supported the pro-democracy demonstrators in the payment of the legal expenses they had to face…
