November 21, 2019 "Information Clearing House" - Videos Shenzhen police sent to the Global Times on Thursday showed a former employee of the British Consulate General in Hong Kong visited a massage club three times before his detention in August, and he told police he chose not to inform his family as he felt ashamed. 

The videos came after Simon Cheng Man-kit, the former employee of the UK's Hong Kong consulate, claimed to have been tortured by police but dodged the question on whether he had solicited prostitutes during interviews with Western media. 

Cheng was seen visiting a club three times between July and August, and each time he checked into a room accompanied by a woman and left shortly afterwards. 

Video of surveillance cameras at the club showed Cheng in a black polo shirt arriving at the club at 5:52 pm on July 23, and he went into a room six minutes later accompanied by a woman. He left the club at 8:18 pm. 

He visited the club again at 6:21 pm on July 31 in the same shirt and walked into a room shortly after with a woman. He left the club at 8:43 pm. 

He went to the club a third time at around 6:40 pm on August 8, entered a room, and left at around 9 pm. 

Cheng, in an orange detention uniform on a sofa, told police that he chose not to inform his family because he felt ashamed when asked why he refused to inform his family and lawyers about the incident. 

He said he was terribly ashamed of himself as his friends would not have believed what he did.

"I was ashamed to go back to see my girlfriend and family," Cheng said in the video.