Dominic Raab urges China to heed UK's Hong Kong warnings
by Patrick Wintour Diplomatic Editor from on (#54JKJ)
Foreign secretary calls for new laws to be dropped and says Beijing tortured' UK employee
The foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, has urged China to step back from the brink by abandoning plans to impose new security laws on Hong Kong, as he accused Beijing of treating a member of Foreign Office staff in a way amounting to torture".
Raab attacked the Chinese government's brutal treatment of Simon Cheng, a former employee of the British consulate in Hong Kong, who was kept in custody for 15 days after travelling to the mainland.
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