UN RIGHTS OFFICE ‘GRAVELY CONCERNED’ OVER HONK KONG – But will do nothing.
The U.N. human rights office also voiced concern about the use of the security law in Hong Kong to jail 45 pro-democracy activists but said it had no plans to cut off its ongoing dialogue with China. Whilst the UN is gravely concerned that people have been arrested, charged and now imprisoned in Hong Kong, for protesting their loss of freedoms, the UN will continue business as usual with the Chinese Communist Party.
On December 19, 1984, after years of negotiations, British and Chinese leaders signed a formal pact approving the 1997 turnover of the colony in exchange for the formulation of a “one country, two systems” policy by China’s communist government.
The then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher called the agreement “a landmark in the life of the territory, in the course of Anglo-Chinese relations, and in the history of international diplomacy.
Massive anti-government protests in Hong Kong began in June 2019, when more than 1 million people marched to protest a bill that would allow the extradition of people to mainland China to stand trial.
China has since simply torn up the pact and arrested anyone protesting human rights in Hong Kong and has now imprisoned the first 45, news and media are not free and public protests are unlawful.
