Britain bans sales of tear gas to Hong Kong after violence at protests

📆 6/26/2019 10:45 PM
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Britain banned sales of crowd-control equipment such as tear gas to Hong Kong on Tuesday and called for an investigation after police clashed with demonstrators opposed to a bill that would allow people to be sent to mainland China for trial.

Jeremy Hunt, a leadership candidate for Britain’s Conservative Party, attends a hustings event in Birmingham, Britain, June 22, 2019.

Hong Kong police this month fired rubber bullets and tear gas at people taking part in the protests – the largest since crowds demonstrated against the bloody suppression of pro-democracy activists in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in June 1989. “What happens in Hong Kong is, I think for all of us, a litmus test of the direction of travel that China goes in,” Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, one of the two contenders to be the next British prime minister, told parliament.

Britain, he said, would issue no more export licenses for crowd-control equipment to Hong Kong until it was satisfied its concerns on human rights and fundamental freedoms had been thoroughly addressed.

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