A Danish politician said he was proud to have managed to “trick a communist superpower” and assisted former pro-democracy lawmaker Ted Hui escape from Hong Kong to Denmark and then Britain, adding that the premeditated plan almost fell through.

Anders Storgaard, former chairman of the Danish Conservative People’s Party Youth Committee, detailed the now-wanted opposition politician’s escape plan in a Facebook post on Tuesday, and said the plan was laid out as early as mid-September.

Hui revealed to him then that he was temporarily released on bail with his passport seized by the court, and that he wanted to get it back, the 26-year-old Danish politician continued.

“At no point did we discuss that the goal was to escape, but I realized it was most likely. Why would a man risk his life to take a nice trip to Denmark and then return home, when the regime was trying to put him in jail? It sounded unreasonable,” he wrote. “He asked if I wanted to help — I answered yes of course.”

Hui — who is now facing up to nine criminal charges stemming from last year’s anti-government protests, including criminal damage and intent to injure others — eventually secured his passport after Danish parliamentarian Uffe Elbaek provided official documentation that supported his official visit to Copenhagen last week to attend an unofficial conference on climate change.

Storgaard said he sent the first letter on Nov. 6 this year to invite Hui to travel to the kingdom, adding that Hui received a notice from Hong Kong police four days before his trip, demanding him submit an itinerary in detail.

“I felt like having a heart attack at the time,” Storgaard said, adding that he later managed to “concoct a completely false itinerary” with the help from other Danish parliament members, think tanks, environmental groups and politicians including former prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen.

“Now, Ted is safely staying in the U.K. with his wife. His six-year-old and eight-year-old daughters can now live safely with their father, who is free from a prison system controlled by a brutal and murderous communist regime,” he said.

“I know there are a few who think what I’ve done isn’t correct. I can only say that this is one of the proudest things I’ve done in my life. I take China’s official condemnation as a huge honor.”

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