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

Hong Kong’s sham elections mark another loss for democracy-loving people

Lord Alton

American poet Maya Angelou said: “When someone shows who they are, believe them the first time”. Millions of Hongkongers are this week asking what sort of chief executive the newly “elected” John Lee will be – warily recalling his brutality as pro-Beijing security chief, violently crushing the city’s pro-democracy movement. Lee has shown Hongkongers exactly [...]
A diplomatic boycott of Beijing’s winter Olympics is a vote for a free Hong Kong

Lord Alton

The Olympic motto of ‘Faster, higher, stronger” is as famous as it is inspiring. The recent update from Pierre de Coubitin’s original iteration now includes “together”. It is in this renewed spirit that the UK must now stand together with the USA and other countries who are staging a full diplomatic boycott of the 2022 [...]
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

November 23, 2019

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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