UK MPs demand Government Ministers act on 12 Hong Kong Youths, Magnitsky Sanctions, and assistance for Hong Kongers born after 1997

Today in the House of Commons at Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Questions, Members of Parliament called on the UK Government to take further action against the imposition of the National Security Law in Hong Kong.

This included the Conservative MP Robbie Moore who asked the Government to take further action to response to the National Security Law and the Conservative MP and Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Andrew Rosindell, who called on the Government to ensure that Carrie Lam and other Hong Kong and Chinese officials responsible for the National Security Law were sanctioned under the UK’s Magnitsky sanctions regime.

Stephen Kinnock MP, Labour’s Shadow Asia Minister, raised the case of the twelve Hong Kongers detained in Shenzhen, asking what representations the Government had made to the Chinese Government on their behalf and whether the four Hong Kongers who hold British National Overseas status have had access to UK consular support. He also called on the Government to ensure that Hong Kongers born after 1997 had access to the Government’s British National Overseas passport scheme opening in January 2021 and also for Hong Kong and Chinese officials guilty of human rights abuses in the city to be subject to targeted Magnitsky sanctions.