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Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 8 January 2025

Debate

Pro-democracy Campaigners: Arrests

Contribution

My Lords, in another place yesterday, the Minister, Catherine West, said that we have to “balance” national security with the need to be “an outwardly facing … trading nation”.—[Official Report, Commons, 7/1/25; col. 760.] Can the Minister explain what that means in the context of the 19 year-old young woman, Chloe Cheung, who now has a £1 million bounty on her head, along with several other young people, including Nathan Law, a former legislator in Hong Kong, whose own family have been threatened regularly, as he is now here in exile in the United Kingdom? Chloe said: “Fear cannot restrain me. Suppression cannot silence me”. Can the Minister tell us what more the Government will do to support people in her position? As the Joint Committee on Human Rights has decided to hold an inquiry into transnational repression, I hope the Minister will agree that that is an inquiry to which he will make a significant contribution as the Human Rights Minister.

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