Yesterday (10) is the “International Human Rights Day”, the United Kingdom and the United States, like the same day, on the human rights violations of officials in various countries to offer sanctions, but did not see the Chinese and Hong Kong officials on the list. In this regard, the chairman of the founding party of the Hong Kong House of Representatives, Mr. Law Kwun Chung, who is currently in exile in the UK, said he was quite disappointed.
According to the Guardian, the U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced sanctions on 17 officials from China, Russia, Jamaica and El Salvador involved in serious human rights violations on the 10th of local time.
Speaking to the Guardian, Mr. Lo expressed his disappointment at the absence of Chinese and Hong Kong officials on the U.K. sanctions list and his belief that those concerned about human rights in China would be dismayed by the news. He said it was impossible not to have evidence of human rights abuses by Chinese and Hong Kong officials, and that it was a “political decision” by the British government.
Rahima Mahmut, a British delegate to the World Uyghur Congress, also said that the absence of Chinese officials on the British sanctions list was “very painful” for minority groups like his who have been brutally suppressed in China.
There is also pressure from within the British Parliament on Foreign Office Minister of State for Asian Affairs Nigel Adams to sanction Chinese officials involved in the arrest of Hong Kong protesters, and Adams has responded that the authorities are considering it.
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