Hong Kong hits back at UK call for security law to be scrapped

A Hong Kong government spokesman said Britain should “stop interfering in Hong Kong matters, which are purely China’s internal affairs”. - Reuters

HONG KONG (Reuters): Hong Kong authorities on Friday (May 26) condemned a British government call for the removal of a China-imposed national security law that Britain said had been used to persecute, "silence and discredit" pro-democracy opposition figures.

Britain's Foreign Secretary James Cleverly wrote in his government's latest six-monthly report on Hong Kong that he had highlighted at a UN hearing in February how Hong Kong authorities had used the security law to crack down on opposition figures, many of whom are in jail or have been forced into exile.