Melbourne residents receive letter offering $200k for information on Hong Kong pro-democracy activist

Exclusive: The anonymous letter contained a photograph of Kevin Yam, a lawyer who has criticised the crackdown on dissent in the Chinese-controlled city

A small number of Melbourne residents have received anonymous letters purporting to offer a police bounty of $203,000 if they inform on an Australian citizen and pro-democracy activist wanted for alleged national security crimes in Hong Kong, linking him to two nearby locations.

A spokesperson for the foreign minister, Penny Wong, told Guardian Australia the letter was “deeply worrying” and that the matter would be raised directly with officials from China and Hong Kong.

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