Leung Chun-ying was the Chief Executive of Hong Kong from 2012 to 2017 and is now Vice Chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference.
On the afternoon of August 13, around 2:15 p.m., Leung was walking with his wife in Helsinki’s Sibelius Park when they noticed a group of Falun Gong practitioners. He approached them and pressured the practitioners to reveal personal details including their names, places of birth, and organizational affiliation, and suggested they were paid to practice publicly and collect petitions. He also denied the reality of human rights abuses faced by Falun Gong practitioners in China, calling it all “lies.” His remarks carried an overt tone of political intimidation. Two others accompanied him.
The Falun Dafa Information Center has obtained an on-site recording of Leung threatening the practitioners. According to the Center, his remarks resembled an interrogation rather than a dialogue and repeated the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) narrative.
“You don’t dare say your full name, your surname,” Leung said. “You don’t dare say how much money, you don’t dare say where the money comes from.” He added, “Once we have your names, when we go back we can immediately check (the CCP’s surveillance database), one by one.” In the video, Leung openly admitted he had monitored and scrutinized Falun Gong practitioners in Hong Kong. He said, “(For those Falun Gong people) in Hong Kong, after many years, we’ve investigated everything thoroughly.”
The Falun Gong practitioners remained calm and contacted Finnish police. Police arrived shortly after Leung and his entourage left, took statements from the practitioners, and confirmed that their activities at the site were legal and protected under Finnish law.
Source: Epoch Times, August 17, 2025
https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/25/8/16/n14574978.htm