Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations he has made to his Chinese counterpart on the prosecution of Professor Chan Kin-Man; and what assessment he has made on whether the potential imprisonment of Professor Chan Kin-Ma complies with the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration.

The British government continues to follow the trial of Professor Chan Kin-Man and other leaders of the ‘Occupy’ Movement in Hong Kong.

Individual cases regarding pro-democracy activists are a matter for the Hong Kong courts. The British Government hopes that these and other recent criminal proceedings do not discourage lawful protest, nor discourage young people from engaging in politics in the future. I visited Hong Kong in November and made clear the UK’s continued commitment to the Joint Declaration, and to the faithful implementation of the ‘One Country, Two Systems’ agreement, which guarantees rights and freedoms to Hong Kong’s people.

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