Hong Kong – Did you see the people vote? Did you hear the people’s voice? Beijing and their Hong Kong Government mustn’t squander this historic opportunity to build political progress and end months of paralysis. How the South China Morning Post covered this historic election. Why Carrie Lam must seize the opportunity to engage and respond. Articles from City AM and Der Spiegel

Articles from City AM and Der Spiegel https://www.cityam.com/hong-kong-under-siege-failing-to-hold-district-council-elections-would-be-an-unforgivable-betrayal/ https://m.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/wahlen-in-hongkong-plebiszit-ueber-die-demokratie-a-1298015.html Did...

Joshua Wong’s Disqualification From Contesting Hong Kong’s District Council Elections Throws Doubt On Their Legitimacy. Link to Thursday’s 3 Hour House of Lords Debate. Times Reports On Tests Now Imposed On Chinese Journalists; Threats To UK Universities; Parliamentary Reply On International Observers For Hong Kong Elections; Hong Kong Watch Response to the UK Government’s 6 Monthly Report On Hong Kong. British Government Expresses Its Concern Over Joshua Wong’s Disqualification

Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL484): Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool: To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the disqualification...

For 3 Hours, the House of Lords Debated Hong Kong. British Politicians United  Across All Parties In Demanding That “one country, two systems” is honoured. Both living former Governors of Hong Kong Spoke. Peers highlighted egregious violations of human rights in China and called for reform, tolerance, dialogue and free speech and for the international community to stand with the people of Hong Kong in their hour of need.

For 3 Hours, the House of Lords Debated Hong Kong. British Politicians United Across All Parties In Demanding That “one country, two systems” is honoured. Both living former Governors of Hong Kong Spoke. Peers highlighted egregious violations of human rights in China and called for reform, tolerance, dialogue and free speech and for the international community to stand with the people of Hong Kong in their hour of need.

  October 24th outside of Parliament after the parliamentary debate with some of those who filled the galleries to watch the debate - including Alan Leong, one of the leaders of Hong Kong's Civic Party.  Hong Kong Watch posted these extracts on ...

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For 18 years David Alton was a Member of the House of Commons and today he is an Independent Crossbench Life Peer in the UK House of Lords.

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