US calls for immediate, unconditional release of 50 Hong Kong politicians ANI | Updated: Jan 07, 2021 20:18 IST
Washington [US], January 7 (ANI): United States Secretary of State Michael Pompeo has slammed Beijing over the arrests of more than 50 politicians and pro-democracy advocates by local authorities in Hong Kong by calling it an outrage and a reminder of the Chinese Communist Party s (CCP) contempt for its own people.
Pompeo in a statement released on Wednesday called for the immediate and unconditional release of those jailed under the draconian National Security Law. Today s arrest of more than 50 politicians and pro-democracy advocates by local authorities in Hong Kong is an outrage and a reminder of the Chinese Communist Party s contempt for its own people and the rule of law. Those arrested are guilty of nothing but exercising the democratic rights promised to them by treaty, and due to them through virtue of their humanity. The
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