Hong Kong Canto-pop singer and pro-democracy activist Denise Ho Wan-sze called on the United Nations Human Rights Council to remove China from the body and convene an urgent session to protect Hongkongers in a short speech at a council meeting on Monday, which was twice interrupted by a delegate from Beijing.
Ho, an active participant in Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement, was invited by NGOs UN Watch and the Human Rights Foundation to speak at a meeting of the 41st session of the council in Geneva on Monday.
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