Lib Dem MP refused entry to Hong Kong

A Liberal Democrat MP has spoken of her “shock” after being barred from entering Hong Kong this week.
Wera Hobhouse said she flew to the Chinese region on Thursday to visit her newborn grandson but she was detained at the airport, questioned, and then deported on the first flight home.
The MP for Bath is one of more than 40 parliamentarians on the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China that scrutinises Beijing’s human rights record but told the Sunday Times she had been given no reason as to why she was refused entry.
Foreign Secretary David Lammy said: “We will urgently raise this with the authorities in Hong Kong and Beijing to demand an explanation.”
He added, it would be “unacceptable for an MP to be denied entry for simply expressing their views as a parliamentarian”.

Source: BBC | Language: English