An international coalition of lawmakers has written to HSBC Holdings Chairman Mark Tucker, calling on the bank to unfreeze Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Ted Hui’s accounts. In a letter, the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, a group of legislators from countries including Britain, Australia, Japan, and the United States, criticized the bank for its freezing of accounts belonging to activists associated with Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement. “HSBC has failed to give evidence of any court order or police warrant to carry out this action and have refused to publicly respond to concerns raised by Hui and his family,” according to the letter. The letter added it was “highly concerning” that Hui’s family members’ accounts have also been frozen, despite not having been subject to any charges. An HSBC spokeswoman said the bank was “unable to comment on individual cases, but the Hong Kong Police explained publicly in early December the reasons …
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