Police's National Security Department today said that six people who have absconded overseas and are suspected to have committed offences under the National Security Law have been placed on the wanted list.

The court has, upon application by Police, issued arrest warrants against the individuals at large.

The six people comprise four men, namely Chung Hon-lam, Chung Kim-wah, Ho Leung-mau Victor, Joseph Tay, and two women, Lau Ka-man and Cheung Hei-ching Chloe. The department indicated that the suspects, who have fled overseas, are alleged to have committed offences under the National Security Law.

Such offences include incitement to secession, subversion, as well as collusion with a foreign country or with external elements to endanger national security.

Police applied to the court for the arrest warrants in accordance with the law and put the suspects on the wanted list.

Given that Police have attached great concern to the case, a reward of $1 million in respect of each wanted person is being offered by Police to any member of the public who can provide information about such individuals or the related cases.

Separately, taking into account the need for safeguarding national security, the Secretary for Security exercised the powers conferred by the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance today to specify seven individuals who have absconded overseas as absconders, including four men, namely Hui Chi-fung, Yuan Gong-yi, Kwok Wing-hang and Yam Kevin, and three women, Kwok Fung-yee, Hui Wing-ting and Siu Joey.

The Secretary for Security also described the measures to be applied against these absconders.

Police stressed that endangering national security is a very serious offence, noting that such acts or activities may lead to extremely serious consequences.

The department explained that according to Article 37 of the National Security Law, this law shall apply to a person who is a permanent resident of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, or an incorporated or unincorporated body such as a company or an organisation which is set up in the region if the person or the body commits an offence under this law outside the region.

Therefore, Police have the responsibility to pursue those who have allegedly committed offences under the National Security Law outside Hong Kong.