Biden's proposed NSA Jake Sullivan 'deeply concerned' about Hong Kong crackdown

Expressing his concern on situation in Hong Kong, United States President-elect Joe Biden's proposed National Security visor Jake Sullivan said that he was 'deeply concerned' about imprisonment of pro-democracy demonstrators in Hong Kong. Hong Kong pro-democracy activists Joshua Wong, Agnes Chow, and Ivan Lam have been jailed by a court for 'organising, participating, and inciting' an unauthorised protest outside a police hequarters last year. Joshua Wong has been jailed for 13 and a half months after he pleed guilty to charges of organising and inciting an unauthorised rally, while Agnes Chow and Ivan Lam have received a prison term of 10 and seven months respectively. 

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Situation in Hong Kong 

On vember 26, a Hong Kong court sentenced a 31-year-old man named Pun Ho-Chiu for throwing eggs on police hequarters during last year's protests. court jailed Pun over charges of property dam, unauthorised assembly, and seven counts of assault. court said even though eggs were t weapons and one was harmed during incident, it is important to send a mess orwise it may encour ors to follow suit. 

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US imposes sanctions 

Recently, Trump ministration imposed sanctions on 14 Chinese officials because of same issue. According to reports by AP, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in a statement said, “Beijing’s unrelenting assault against Hong Kong’s democratic processes has gutted its Legislative Council, rendering body a rubber stamp devoid of meaningful opposition”.

He ded, “se actions demonstrate once again Beijing’s complete disregard for its international commitments under Si-British Joint Declaration, a U.N.-registered treaty”. 14 official who have been sanctioned are: Wang Chen, Cao Jianming, Zhang Chunxian, Shen Yueyue, Ji Bingxuan, Arken Imirbaki, Wan Exiang, Chen Du, Wang Dongming, Pma Choling, Ding Zhongli, Hao Mingjin, Cai Dafeng, and Wu Weihua.

situation in Hong Kong has remained hostile since mid-last year after millions of people took to street to protest against an extrition bill, which later turned into a pro-democracy movement. Mainland China introduced controversial national security law in June this year and arrested several people under what critics argue is a draconian law. So far, an estimated 10,000 people have been arrested in cases related to ongoing protests.

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(Im Credits: AP)