Hong Kong has responded with fury over what it described as “unfounded and ridiculous allegations” in key reports from the United Kingdom and the United States that said the territory’s democratic rights and freedoms were continuing to deteriorate.In a six monthly update released on Thursday, the UK, which ruled Hong Kong as a colony before its return to China in 1997, said that “alternative voices in Hong Kong’s executive, legislature, civil society and media ha(d) been all but extinguished”.The US reached a similar conclusion in its report covering the 12 months from March 2021: “(Chinese) authorities took actions that eliminated the ability of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy opposition to play a meaningful role in the city’s governance and effectively criminalized peaceful political expression critical of the central and local governments,” it said.
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