Canada, UK, Australia and New Zealand parliamentarians urge creation of UN special envoy for Hong Kong GlobePolitics
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.As Beijing clamps down on dissent in Hong Kong, leading parliamentarians in Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand are urging the United Nations to establish a special human rights envoy to monitor the former British colony.
“It is imperative that the international community move rapidly to ensure there is a mechanism for observing and transparent reporting on the impact of the new law on what are currently legal freedoms in Hong Kong.” They wrote that Beijing’s increasing aggressiveness and its crackdown on dissent must be addressed. Beijing uses massive surveillance techniques to monitor its citizens, imprisons those who criticize Communist Party rule and built prison camps to hold up to one million ethnic Uyghurs in China’s Xinjiang region.
In a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Mr. Levitt urged Canada to “lead the international effort to ensure as much protection as possible for the people of Hong Kong and for democracy worldwide.” Last week the foreign ministers of Canada, the U.S., UK and Australia wrote the national security laws are a violation of the 1984 international agreement China and Britain signed that guaranteed Hong Kong its own autonomy under the “one-country, two-systems” model.
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