Hong Kong Govt ‘Strongly Opposes’ UK, US Report on City’s Diminishing Freedoms
Hong Kong (Reuters) – The Hong Kong government said on Friday it refused the allegations of “unfounded and ridiculous” which was made in policy reports from the UK and the United States political and legal situations that deteriorated due to extensive national security laws.
The United States and the United States released a strong report on Thursday detailing concerns about freedom erosion in the global financial hub and the suffering of differences of opinion in the legislature of the city, civil society and the media.
The report came after two senior British judges resigned from Hong Kong’s highest court on Wednesday as the National Security Law that punished violations such as subversion with a life sentence.
The leader of the Hong Kong Carrie Lam said the resignation “motivated politics”, while China blamed him on “British pressure”.
We are strongly opposed to unfounded and ridiculous accusations of the Hong Kong Special Administration Regional Government made by foreign countries through various reports,” said the Hong Kong government in a statement.
The government urges foreign countries to stop interfering with Chinese internal affairs through Hong Kong affairs. “
The British report said it could no longer be answered to serve British judges to sit in the field of Hong Kong, on the grounds that the political situation and city law “now has deteriorated where it is acceptable to serve British judges to take part”.
British judges have long served among foreign judgers appointed to the CFA, an arrangement imposed before the submission of Hong Kong to China in 1997 to maintain trust in a separate legal system widely seen as a bedrock from the social and commercial freedom of the city .
The ten other foreign judges still served the Hong Kong court, six of them were retired British law experts, one Canada and three Australians.
People and business diplomats are very close, given the importance of legal independence with Hong Kong’s status as a global financial center.
The difference between Hong Kong and cities in Mainland China is “shrinking because of the ongoing repression of the People’s Republic of China,” Antony Blinken, Secretary of State, said in the report.
The Hong Kong government said it was proud of “unshakable commitment” in the supremacy of the law and independent justice.
It is said strongly committed to maintaining press freedom and speech, with the media being able to monitor government work and criticize the policy as long as it does not “violate the law.
