Exiled Chinese dissidents alarmed by ‘spy’ arrest of Westminster researcher

Activists call for reassurances to be given to those who gave information to parliamentarians

Finn Lau's meeting with a Westminster researcher who was later arrested on suspicion of spying for China lasted just 20 minutes. Nearly a year later he is mulling the potential consequences.

Lau, an exiled Hong Kong pro-democracy activist with a 100,000 bounty on his head, has a lingering suspicion that some of his ideas for putting more pressure on China appear not to have made it beyond their meeting.