Hong Kong: Human Rights

(asked on 18th October 2023) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the human rights situation in Hong Kong.


Answered by
Anne-Marie Trevelyan Portrait
Anne-Marie Trevelyan
Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
This question was answered on 25th October 2023

As the Foreign Secretary outlined in the latest Six-monthly Report to Parliament, published on 19 September, China has continued to curtail and control many of the rights and freedoms enshrined in the Sino-British Joint Declaration and Hong Kong's Basic Law under the guise of national security. Changes to electoral legislation have also meant a further step away from universal suffrage in Hong Kong. We will continue to speak out against the continued erosion of rights and freedoms in Hong Kong and China's ongoing non-compliance with the Joint Declaration. The Foreign Secretary made this clear during detailed discussions with Chinese Vice President Han Zheng during his visit to China on 31 August.

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