Former U.K. Consulate Worker Says China Police Tortured Him: WSJ

(Bloomberg) -- A former worker with the British Consulate in Hong Kong said Chinese secret police tortured him for information about the leaders of the pro-democracy protest movement, the Wall Street Journal reported.Simon Cheng told the newspaper that he was beaten by the Chinese secret police, chained spread-eagled and deprived of food after he was detained in August. Cheng, who was working for the U.K. mission’s business development team, said he was questioned about Britain’s rol