Hong Kong: Political Prisoners Debate

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Lord Cormack

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Hong Kong: Political Prisoners

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Tuesday 22nd February 2022

(2 years, 6 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Cormack Portrait Lord Cormack (Con)
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My Lords, is it not time for us to reconsider British judges giving a veneer of respectability to an appallingly repressive regime?

Earl of Courtown Portrait The Earl of Courtown (Con)
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The national security law poses real questions for the rule of law in Hong Kong and the protection of fundamental rights and freedoms promised by China in the joint declaration. Our assessment of Hong Kong’s judicial independence is increasingly finely balanced. It is, therefore, right that it is kept under review.