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:
👏Congrats to the #HongKong community for their efforts in bringing this forward.
🗓️Mark your calendar: a debate on the terms of #BNOvisas is scheduled for 8 September
Keep signing the petition, stay updated, and write to your MP with your views: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/727356
🚨@WSJ: Wells Fargo executive Chenyue Mao, an Atlanta-based director, was blocked from leaving #China after a business trip.
Wells Fargo is now pausing ALL travel to China.
Keep calling it “open for business,” just know you might not get to leave.😉
Exclusive | U.S.-Based Wells Fargo Banker Blocked From Leaving China
Chinese authorities have placed an exit ban on a China-born executive after she entered the country recently. The bank has suspended travel to China.
www.wsj.com
📰NEWSLETTER: #HongKong claims #JimmyLai chose solitary confinement, despite no credible evidence, as the 77-year-old endures another sweltering summer in prison.
@thecfhk President @MarkLClifford warns in @WSJ: his life is at risk.
Read more here: https://thecfhk.org/controversy-over-jimmy-lai-prison-conditions/
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...
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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...
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