The UK’s deputy denied entry to Hong Kong

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Hong Kong has banned a British member of Parliament from entering Chinese territory, adding uncertainty in the United Kingdom of China just as the action government seeks to intensify bilateral economic relations.

Wera Hobhouse, the liberal democratic deputy and a member of the cross -border coalition around China (IPAC), said she refused to enter upon arrival at Hong Kong this week without specific reasons by the authorities.

Denial comes as a business government He seeks to formulate closer relationships With China. UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves and Foreign Minister David Lami has traveled to Beijing in recent months, and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi was in London in February. Prime Minister Sir Kerr Starmer is expected to visit China this year.

The coalition said in a statement on Sunday that the expulsion of Hophouse “appears to be linked to its criticism of the Beijing Human Rights Registry” and perhaps its membership in IPAC.

“The Hong Kong authorities felt able to refuse to enter the parliament that sits while hosting UK ministers at the same time is an insult to Parliament,” IPAC said.

Hophaus told the Sunday Times, who first reported the news, which was first reported to the news for the first time, and she is being held in the security of the airport and is interrogating before returning to the United Kingdom hours after the UK, Hymphus told the Sunday Times, which was first reported to the news for the first time, I was reserved in the security of the airport and asked before returning to the United Kingdom after hours, to see the grandson of the grandson The newborn, she traveled to Hong Kong with her husband on Thursday to see the grandson of the new baby, but she was seized in the security of the airport and interrogated her before returning to the United Kingdom after hours.

“The authorities have not given me any explanation for this harsh and annoying blow,” Hobhouse wrote on the Bluesky social media platform, adding that she believed that she was “the first member of the deputy to be rejected upon arrival in Hong Kong since 1997,” which is the year in which the UK handed over to China.

“I hope that the Foreign Minister will realize that this is an insult to all parliamentarians and to request answers from the Chinese ambassador,” she wrote.

She allowed her husband, a businessman, to enter but decided to return to the United Kingdom with her, according to the Times.

“We will upload this urgently with the authorities in Hong Kong and Beijing to demand an interpretation,” said Foreign Minister Lami, according to the BBC.

Lipp Deem’s leader, Sir Ed Davi, said that the refusal was “without a heart.” “The Chinese authorities led to its removal – just because they are a British deputy … completely unacceptable,” he wrote on the social media platform X.

In 2014, in the midst of a pro -democracy protests in Hong Kong, China told that British deputies in a committee conducted an investigation into the UK relations with the city, Strweeion, “Entering” if they traveled there, saying that Beijing warned them that the proposed delegation would show support for protests “illegal activity.”

Academics and journalists have been in recent years Entry In Chinese lands.

The Hong Kong Ministry of Immigration and the UK’s China Embassy immediately responded to the request for comment.

Beijing took the opposition in Hong Kong after pro -democracy protests in 2019, including the imposition of the full national security law.

In October, the administration said it collected a “monitoring list” of unwanted individuals who are considered a threat to the social system or national security of the region.

The ministry said that Hong Kong refused to enter more than 23,000 people in the first nine months of last year.