Ali Mitib

PEP GUARDIOLA: 10 YEARS AT #MCFC 🗣️ Bollocking players - when 4-0 up at HT 💷 Fining himself after Foden tirade 🍾 Impromptu champagne with neighbour Gundo 💤 Pep’s curfew edict from staffer’s unimpressed wife 🚘 Great manager, not so good driver ⬇️ telegraph.co.uk/football/2026/…

Our advocacy manager @Chloe_chc_25 carries a £100,000 Hong Kong police bounty — just like those targeted by the the Chinese Communist Party spy ring operating out of Hong Kong's London trade office. In today's @thetimes, she calls for the U.K. government to close the spy hub with immediate effect: "The security minister, @DanJarvisMBE, often says that the British government 'will not tolerate' transnational repression. If that is true, then London’s Hong Kong trade office must be closed without delay." thetimes.com/comment/column…

In @thetimes, @alimitib reports on our landmark survey of transnational repression against #HongKongers in 🇬🇧 amid calls to shut down the #HongKong Economic and Trade Office. Following the conviction of two men for espionage against Hong Kongers, we are publishing our survey today to expose the full extent of transnational repression against this diaspora. Read in full👇 thetimes.com/uk/crime/artic…

In this deep dive article for @thetimes, @AliMitib exposes how #HKETO spy Bill Yuen studied policing alongside #HongKong Chief Executive and former Secretary for Security John Lee. HKETOs cannot be used as an outpost for Hong Kong's national security forces. Their consular privileges and status must be urgently reviewed. Read in full👇 thetimes.com/uk/crime/artic…

Must read this chilling @thetimes deep dive by @AliMitib into how U.K. intelligence services nabbed the "shadow policing" operation targeting Communist regime critics that was run out of Hong Kong's 'trade office' in London. thetimes.com/uk/crime/artic…

How MI5 uncovered the Chinese spy ring at heart of civil service thetimes.com/uk/crime/artic…

How MI5 uncovered the Chinese spy ring at heart of civil service: „Bill Yuen and Peter Wai tracked Hong Kong dissidents in a ‘shadow policing’ operation masterminded by Chinese agents — but Britain’s secret service was on their trail.“ thetimes.com/uk/crime/artic… #China #UK

How MI5 uncovered the Chinese spy ring at the heart of the civil service thetimes.com/uk/crime/artic…

How MI5 uncovered the Chinese spy ring at heart of civil service thetimes.com/article/a030c1…

//Wai and Yuen were found guilty by a majority verdict at the Old Bailey. The Times can reveal that the pair were arrested after a long-running investigation by MI5. Their convictions are the first relating to Chinese espionage in British history.// thetimes.com/uk/crime/artic…

Welcome news as two men are found guilty of spying and working for the Chinese Communist Party under the Conservatives’ landmark National Security Act, But a successful prosecution means nothing when the broader policy is appeasement. You can’t prosecute spies with one hand and roll out the red carpet for Beijing with the other. Deterrence requires a Government willing to call out Beijing threats and confront them - until that happens we will remain vulnerable.

Bill Yuen and Peter Wai tracked Hong Kong dissidents in a ‘shadow policing’ operation masterminded by Chinese agents — but MI5 was on their trail. Read the untold story of the Chinese spyring operating at the heart of the Civil Service thetimes.com/article/a030c1…

#BREAKING reporting restrictions now lifted so can say that Yuen Chung Biu and Wai Chi Leung have been convicted for assisting a foreign intelligence service. This is good news for all dissidents in the UK. thetimes.com/article/2015bd…

BREAKING: A Home Office immigration official and Hong Kong trade official have been found guilty of spying for China in first case of its kind thetimes.com/article/2015bd…

A Times victory, following @AliMitib and my reporting with @OCCRP on the British equipment ending up in Russian drones killing civilians in Ukraine, with a significant tightening up of restrictions on exports being circumvented via third parties. edition.pagesuite.com/popovers/dynam…

A Reform council candidate in Ealing who formerly ran a Hong Kong trade office publicly praised the country’s brutal crackdown on pro–democracy protesters. Story in @thetimes with @GeorgeGreenwood thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

The row over the Trafalgar Square iftar has seen Jews and Christians coming to the defence of Muslims. My thoughts on a fascinating and important trend:- comment.press/iftar

Excoriating criticism of @FCDOGovUK & Whitehall from a diplomat who’s just quit h/t @thetimes “It’s this constant focus on the peripheral & cuddly rather than a really relentless focus on the core of what the Foreign Office is meant to be there to do” thetimes.com/article/uk-for…

Full investigation with @GeorgeGreenwood and @AnnaFDowell below thetimes.com/uk/defence/art…

The Geran-2 is among more than 20 models of Russian military equipment used during its invasion of Ukraine that have been found to contain British-made components. Others include T-72 tanks, surface-to-air missile launchers and even short-range ballistic missiles.

INVESTIGATION: British hardware is being used to power the suicide drones behind Russia’s devastating attacks on Ukrainian cities and its civilian population. A collaborative project with @occrp @tijd @KyivIndependent thetimes.com/uk/defence/art…