Visitors to Commons forced to hand over leaflets on press freedom in Hong Kong
by Kiran Stacey and Tom Burgis from World news | The Guardian on (#6BAX1)
Officials claim material on Jimmy Lai constituted political slogans but David Davis calls heavy-handed approach completely daft'
Parliamentary security guards confiscated reports and leaflets about Hong Kong from attenders of an event in Westminster in case they caused political upset, the Guardian has learned, in a move condemned by a senior Conservative MP as completely daft".
Officers on the parliamentary estate forced people attending a meeting of the all-party parliamentary group on Hong Kong last Monday to hand over copies of a report by the group about press freedom there, as well as leaflets campaigning for the release of the media tycoon Jimmy Lai.
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