Mainland Chinese and Hong Kong officials lied to UN Human Rights Council about city’s high degree of autonomy, activists say.
Officials from mainland China and Hong Kong had lied to the UN Human Rights Council about the city’s high degree of autonomy being intact, activists said on Sunday while claiming that the erosion of local freedoms had reached a critical juncture.
“The international community has sensed the problems, and they fear that the rights of their citizens in Hong Kong could be harmed.” The suggestions raised by the countries were among others put forth to local and mainland officials in Geneva. Bonnie Leung Wing-man, deputy convenor of the Civil Human Rights Front, an alliance of pro-democracy groups, said: “The Chinese delegation looked at human rights with Chinese characteristics, which are not up to international standards.”
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