5 June 2025
3 June 2025
British Detainees and the Legal Right to Consular Assistance
Committee Room 18, House of Commons
Since 2019, the ongoing national security crackdown in Hong Kong has resulted in the imprisonment of more than 1,900 political prisoners, aged 13 to 76, roughly half of whom are still behind bars. The CFHK Foundation campaigns to secure the release of all political prisoners in Hong Kong, each of whom is a testament to the liberty the city has lost. Here are their stories:
Thank you @RepMoolenaar @committeeonccp for cosponsoring the Hong Kong Judicial Sanctions Act (H.R.733) and the HKETO Certification Act (H.R.2661). Your leadership in holding the CCP accountable and unwavering support for Hongkongers’ fight for freedom are deeply appreciated.
🇳🇿@josiahmortimer shares why it's not appropriate for foreign judges like #NewZealand's William Young to serve on #HongKong's Court of Final Appeal & swear oaths to a #China-controlled territory that imprisons democrats
@NewZealandMFA @NZBarAssoc
British Lords Under Fire for Serving on Hong Kong Court Which Sentences Democracy Activists, While...
EXCLUSIVE: Peers earn tens of thousands of pounds from roles as Beijing tightens its grip, imprisoning journalists and human rights campaigners
bylinetimes.com
🧵1/ @josiahmortimer's great piece says British Lords Neuberger & Hoffman are under fire for serving on a #HongKong court that persecutes democracy advocates and for swearing an oath to a #China-run territory...
British Lords Under Fire for Serving on Hong Kong Court Which Sentences Democracy Activists, While...
EXCLUSIVE: Peers earn tens of thousands of pounds from roles as Beijing tightens its grip, imprisoning journalists and human rights campaigners
bylinetimes.com
We thank @LabFriendsofHK Co-chair @Tim_Roca for raising #JimmyLai and asking when the PM will appoint a special envoy to handle cases like his.
We appreciate @Keir_Starmer's commitment to “get him home” and welcome that work is underway “at pace” to get the envoy role set up.
Meanwhile govt rams through changes to prison visit rules to ban lawyers/religious figures from visiting prisoners like #JimmyLai on nat security grounds
⛓️This 'legalises' denial of communion & is another
nail in coffin for #ReligiousFreedom in #HongKong…
The Hong Kong government has defended the detention arrangements of jailed pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai after a US newspaper published an op-ed saying Lai suffered from “appalling conditions” in custody.
In full: https://buff.ly/u6amJwp - link in bio.
Photo: Kyle Lam/…
🚨#HongKong again ramming legislation through its 'patriots only' legislature via 'negative vetting' so lawmakers/public cannot scrutinise
⛓️Prison authorities can now ban prisoner visits by lawyers & religious figures on national security grounds
Tightened prison rules restricting visits on nat. security grounds to take effect on Friday
Tightened prison rules restricting lawyers and religious leaders from visiting inmates will take effect on Friday, jus...
hongkongfp.com
More aggressive defence from #HongKong officials, this time directed at @NikkeiAsia & @bbcchinese for reporting about the National Security Law.
Hint: The best way to improve #HK's image is stop imprisoning innocent democrats. #HK47
Beijing slams BBC Chinese, Nikkei Asia over ‘distorted reports’ on Hong Kong nat. sec law
China’s foreign ministry office in Hong Kong has condemned articles published by BBC Chinese and Nikkei Asia, accu...
hongkongfp.com
#HK47 appeals: Owen Chow & Winnie Yu's lawyers argue that High Court did not give them a fair trial as the judges kept interrupting, asking 45% of questions
💡That's no surprise when the judges were appointed by the govt & the govt is the prosecutor🙄
https://hongkongfp.com/2025/07/16/2-jailed-hong-kong-activists-had-unfair-trial-lawyers-tell-court-in-appeals-against-subversion-convictions/
.#HongKong government, glad to have your attention.
If British citizen #JimmyLai is receiving "suitable" care, why not allow
🔸Consular access for @UKinHongKong?
🔸Independent medical assessment?
🔸Political access for UK govt officials?
#FreeJimmyLai
https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/202507/16/P2025071600867.htm?fontSize=1
Did we touch a nerve?
#HongKong's govt is again aggressively telling the world to leave them to it as they persecute an innocent man in inhumane conditions ⏬
As #HK warns to "Beware of health of elderly persons with chronic medical conditions" in 33/92° temps, @MarkLClifford writes on the terrible impact on #HongKong's reputation of continuing to detain 77-year-old diabetes sufferer #JimmyLai.
#FreeJimmyLai
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-perilous-pressure-of-jimmy-lais-prosecution-china-hong-kong-prison-4721a93b?st=KvFw6R