Source: Hong Kong Government special administrative region
The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Government yesterday (January 22) vehemently opposed the so-called resolution adopted by the European Parliament against Hong Kong, and strongly condemned the Parliament for using the Lai Chee-ying case to make baseless allegations about Hong Kong and smear the Hong Kong National Security Law (HKNSL) and the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance (SNSO), so as to set the record straight.
A spokesman for the HKSAR Government said, “The European Parliament has made sweepingly generalised and grandstanding comments, completely disregarding the profound historical significance of the HKNSL and its undeniable positive impact on the HKSAR. It has rather distorted the facts and smeared the HKSAR and the HKNSL as well as other laws safeguarding national security in Hong Kong. On the contrary, they never utter a word about the strict enforcement of national security laws by other governments against activities that endanger their national security. This is an entirely despicable political manipulation, and we must sternly denounce wrongdoing of the European Parliament to set the record straight and to expose its shameless ‘double standards’ to the world.”