Ministers must investigate how much UK property and other assets are owned by Chinese officials complicit in human rights abuses, MPs have urged.
In a letter to Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, a group of 110 politicians called for an audit of UK assets of Hong Kong and Chinese officials.
Concern: In a letter to Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, a group of 110 politicians called for an audit of UK assets of Hong Kong and Chinese officials
The group, led by Labour’s Siobhain McDonagh, Tory chair of the foreign affairs committee Tom Tugendhat and former Tory party leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith, said ‘targeted sanctions’ could then be brought in.
Duncan Smith said Truss should learn from the united response to the invasion of Ukraine.
He said an audit ‘would serve as a pathway to the UK finally introducing a Hong Kong-specific Magnitsky-style sanctions list against those responsible for the ongoing human rights violations in the city.’
It follows a report by UK-based Hong Kong Watch, which found five Hong Kong officials and six lawmakers involved in the free speech crackdown own UK properties.
