‘Latest Assault on Freedom’: Pompeo Slams China’s ‘Orwellian’ Censorship Moves in Hong Kong
Record photograph of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. (Reuters)
Government within the monetary hub have ordered faculties to take away books for assessment underneath the brand new legislation, which has criminalized positive evaluations corresponding to requires independence or autonomy.
- AFP
- Final Up to date: July 7, 2020, 7:53 AM IST
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday lashed out at what he referred to as China’s “Orwellian” strikes to censor activists, faculties and libraries in Hong Kong underneath a brand new sweeping safety legislation.
Government within the monetary hub have ordered faculties to take away books for assessment underneath the brand new legislation, which has criminalized positive evaluations corresponding to requires independence or autonomy.
Libraries stated they had been pulling titles from a handful of pro-democracy activists. “The Chinese language Communist Birthday party’s destruction of unfastened Hong Kong continues,” Pompeo stated in a sharply worded observation.
“With the ink slightly dry at the repressive Nationwide Safety Regulation, native government — in an Orwellian transfer — have now established a central executive nationwide safety administrative center, began taking away books important of the CCP from library cabinets, banned political slogans, and are actually requiring faculties to implement censorship,” he stated.
He condemned what he referred to as the “newest attacks at the rights and freedoms of the folks of Hong Kong.”
