This handout from The Chaser News taken on October 16, 2022 and released to AFP on October 17 shows an incident involving a scuffle between a Hong Kong pro-democracy protester (centre) and Chinese consulate staff, as a British police officer attempts to intervene, during a demonstration outside the consulate in Manchester. UK police said on Monday, October 17, they were probing the reported beating of a Hong Kong pro-democracy protester in the grounds of the Chinese consulate in Manchester, northern England. - AFP
LONDON, Oct 17 (PA Media/dpa): Reports that a Hong Kong pro-democracy protester was beaten in the grounds of the Chinese consulate in Manchester have sparked outrage.
Tory MP Iain Duncan-Smith and shadow foreign secretary David Lammy called for the Chinese ambassador to be forced to explain what happened after the confrontation on Sunday.
