As China continues to suppress the will of the people in Hong Kong under the draconian National Security Law media outlets worldwide have called Beijing acti
Washington [US], April 18 (ANI): As China continues to suppress the will of the people in Hong Kong under the draconian National Security Law, media outlets worldwide have called Beijing’s actions in the city „a new level of viciousness“. In a piece written by the editorial board of The Washington Post, they wrote that out of the 10 pro-democracy activists sentenced on Friday, nine of them — now mostly in their 60s and 70s — were hauled into a courtroom and sentenced to prison terms adding that the regime of the Chinese President Xi Jinping has stooped to a new low. „China’s crackdown in Hong Kong has reached a new level of viciousness,“ the editorial’s headline read. As many as 10 prominent pro-democracy figures were sentenced on Friday in Hong Kong in two separate cases for their peaceful involvement in 2019 protests. Those sentenced are Martin Lee, Albert Ho, Jimmy Lai, Margaret Ng, Cyd Ho, Lee Cheuk-yan, Leung Kwok-hung, Au Nok-hin, Leung Yiu-chung, and Yeung Sum.
