By: Lord Alton

Lord Alton of Liverpool is a Crossbench Peer who serves on the House of Lords’ International Relations Select Committee. He is a patron of Hong Kong Watch and vice chair of the All-Party Group on Hong Kong

Britain cannot stand by in the face of shocking human right abuses across Hong Kong

On 9 March, the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Hong Kong, of which I am a vice chair, launched an inquiry into human rights abuses perpetrated by the Hong Kong Police Force against medical and humanitarian workers during the 2019 protests. One thousand submissions later, we are ready to publish our findings. Our report, published [...]
Hong Kong under siege: Failing to hold District Council Elections would be an unforgivable betrayal

Hong Kong: Failing to hold District Council Elections would be a betrayal

Tomorrow, voters in Hong Kong are expected to head to the polls in swathes, for what will be the most closely followed District Election in Hong Kong since the 1997 handover. I will be flying out to monitor those elections as a member of an Election Observation Mission organised by the campaign group, Stand With Hong [...]

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