Hong Kong’s Chief Executive John Lee said that Article 23 legislation was necessary to counter serious security threats and protect Hong Kong. Now we can see that, according to John Lee, Hong Kong must be protected from the serious threat posed by ‘seditious’ t-shirts.
It is hard to imagine a more perfect demonstration of the paranoia and overreaction of the Lee administration than throwing an individual in jail for over a year for wearing the wrong clothes.
The UK government should condemn this farcical abuse of power and, furthermore, ensure that UKVI does not automatically reject the BNO visa applications of Hong Kongers who have been subject to this sort of politically-motivated custodial sentence.
