Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to his Chinese counterpart on the conviction in Hubei province of Liu Feiyue, of the human rights news website Minsheng Guancha, to a five-year jail term for inciting state subversion.

We regularly raise our concerns about media freedom in China. On 2 March Lord (Tariq) Ahmad expressed his concern about the findings of the Foreign Correspondents' Club of China's (FCCC) Annual Report. He also issued a statement raising his concerns about the sentencing of journalist Huang Qi in August 2019. The former Foreign Secretary expressed concern about Liu Feiyue's detention and the deteriorating situation for journalists in China in a statement at the time of his sentencing in January 2019.