UK Diplomat Attends Hearing of 47 HK Dissidents as Raab Condemns National Security Law
A British diplomat was among the foreign diplomats in Hong Kong queuing on Monday morning to attend the hearing of the 47 dissidents charged on Sunday under the “national security law.”
The UK’s Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab on Monday said that the Beijing-imposed national security law is a political tool to stifle dissenting voices, and is in violation of the Sino-British Joint Declaration.
Forty-seven Hong Kong dissidents were charged on Sunday with conspiracy to commit subversion, in the largest single clampdown on the city’s pro-democracy opposition under a Beijing-imposed “national security law.”