In a joint letter issued at the moment, NGOs and groups serving to Hong Kongers to settle within the UK have urged the federal government to take motion to make sure the fitting to protest is protected within the UK.
On 17 October 2022, when a bunch of Hong Kongers protested peacefully exterior the consulate of People’s Republic of China, a small group of males reportedly got here out of the consulate constructing. One of the protesters was dragged into the consulate floor and assaulted.
Civil society groups serving to to welcome Hong Kongers to the UK say they worry that the incident may make Hong Kongers residing in Britain, or interested by settling within the UK, “wary about the prospect of a peaceful life in the UK”. The letter asks the federal government to reassure Hong Kongers that their rights shall be protected within the UK.
The textual content of the joint letter is as follows:
Dear Prime Minister, Foreign Secretary and Home Secretary,
We write to express our deep concern concerning the occasions on 17 October 2022 in Manchester inside and outside the consulate of the Chinese People’s Republic, when peaceable protesters have been overwhelmed and forcibly detained.
The proper to peaceable protest is important to British democracy. Many Hong Kongers have come to the UK below the BN(O) visa scheme precisely as a result of they’ve fled persecution and the curtailment of their democratic rights in Hong Kong.
If the guarantees the UK has given Hong Kongers – and certainly the excessive requirements of British democracy – are to imply something, this sort of…
