'Pursued for life': Hong Kong's bounty hunters target Australians

As well as issuing warrants for their arrest, Hong Kong authorities took the unusual step of issuing a $HK1 million ($192,000) reward for information leading to their return. The collusion offence carries a sentence of up to life in prison. Hong Kong's leader John Lee later elaborated, saying the activists would be "pursued for life" and called on exiled activists' friends and relatives to provide information on their whereabouts. His rhetoric was a reminder of China's Cultural Revolution, when relatives and neighbours were encouraged to spy on each other, and unsettled many in a city seeking to restore its image…