By Wenxin Fan
Updated Nov. 20, 2019 10:03 am ET
HONG KONG—A former employee of Britain’s Hong Kong consulate
claimed Chinese secret police beat him, deprived him of sleep and chained
him spread-eagled as they pressed him for information about activists
leading the pro-
democracy protests that have swept the city since June.
In a series of interviews, Simon Cheng, a Hong Kong citizen who worked for
the U.K. mission’s business-development team when he wasdetained, told
The Wall Street Journal he also was questioned repeatedly about the role
his
interrogators presumed Britain...
