A piece of intelligence is passed on to HKSAR Government by the
UK Government.
Intelligence
Various sources of intelligence from MI5 suggested that several small
groups of UK Foreign Fighter (FF), (IS (Islamic State) terrorist training
camp trained UK Muslims, and Mujahideen, (Jihadist in the Afghan War
against the invading Soviet forces and the Bosnian War in fights against
Serb and Croat forces), accused the Beijing government of persecution
and torturing the Uyghurs at the “re-education” camps in Xinjiang, China.
These groups of FF and Mujahideen are sympathetic towards the
Uyghurs in China declaring to support the Eastern Turkistan Islamic
Movement (ETIM) to violently resist against the Chinese government.
According to the reliable intelligence, some members of these groups
would fly to Hong Kong to carry out a series of terrorist attacks since
Hong Kong is an open metropolitan city amongst all the China’s
developed cities. The attacks would be a form of retaliation to punish the
Chinese government with a view to defending the ethnic of Muslims in
China. However, at this stage, the UK MI5 is unable to identify any
individual terrorists (FF or Mujahideen) nor to ascertain the time of the
possible terrorist attack would take place in Hong Kong.
February 2023
