Apr 13, 2025 08:16 PM
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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy6rkr26l8o
https://www.politico.eu/article/british-...hong-kong/
EXCERPTS: A Liberal Democrat MP barred from entering Hong Kong has told the BBC she believes it was to "shut me up and to silence me". Wera Hobhouse flew to the Chinese region with her husband on Thursday to visit her son and newborn grandson. However she was detained at the airport, questioned and deported.
The MP for Bath, one of more than 40 parliamentarians of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (Ipac) which criticises Beijing's handling of human rights, said she was given no reason for being refused entry. Speaking on the BBC's Newscast show on Sunday, she said she wants "some answers"...
[...] In response to the suggestion it could be due to her involvement in Ipac, which scrutinises Beijing's human rights record, Hobhouse said she was not very "outspoken about China" [...] Foreign Secretary David Lammy has promised to "urgently" raise the issue with authorities in Hong Kong and Beijing and "demand an explanation."
[...] “I am the first MP to be refused entry on arrival to Hong Kong since 1997,” Hobhouse wrote in a post on BlueSky, referring to the end of British colonial rule of the city. [...] China has been cracking down on civil liberties in Hong Kong since 2019, leading to a deterioration in relations with the U.K. and other European countries...
https://www.politico.eu/article/british-...hong-kong/
EXCERPTS: A Liberal Democrat MP barred from entering Hong Kong has told the BBC she believes it was to "shut me up and to silence me". Wera Hobhouse flew to the Chinese region with her husband on Thursday to visit her son and newborn grandson. However she was detained at the airport, questioned and deported.
The MP for Bath, one of more than 40 parliamentarians of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (Ipac) which criticises Beijing's handling of human rights, said she was given no reason for being refused entry. Speaking on the BBC's Newscast show on Sunday, she said she wants "some answers"...
[...] In response to the suggestion it could be due to her involvement in Ipac, which scrutinises Beijing's human rights record, Hobhouse said she was not very "outspoken about China" [...] Foreign Secretary David Lammy has promised to "urgently" raise the issue with authorities in Hong Kong and Beijing and "demand an explanation."
[...] “I am the first MP to be refused entry on arrival to Hong Kong since 1997,” Hobhouse wrote in a post on BlueSky, referring to the end of British colonial rule of the city. [...] China has been cracking down on civil liberties in Hong Kong since 2019, leading to a deterioration in relations with the U.K. and other European countries...
