Brits For Hong Kong plan Lee Po protest to put pressure on UK government
London-based activists follow up foreign office’s accusation of ‘serious breach’ of Joint Declaration
A London-based Hong Kong pressure group will picket the offices of the UK Government’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London on Sunday, following the department’s response to the Lee Po kidnapping as a “serious breach” of the Sino-British Joint Declaration.
Organisers Brits For Hong Kong said London was in a position to declare the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration “null and void,” and subsequently make new arrangements for self-rule to be established in the SAR.
TIMELINE: Hong Kong’s missing booksellers and what we know so far
Last week, Britain produced its strongest statement concerning Hong Kong’s situation in its latest six-monthly healthcheck of the city.
Britain called the “involuntarily removed” missing bookseller Lee Po a “serious breach” of the Sino-British Joint Declaration. The renewed diplomatic tension over Lee comes as the UK government expressed “serious concern” over the level of rights and freedoms enjoyed by Hongkongers, claiming they had come under “unprecedented pressure”.
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