Exiled Hong Kong dissidents fear UK plan to restart extraditions will put them in danger Legislative change comes five years after treaty suspended in response to city’s crackdown on pro-democracy activists

Exiled Hong Kong dissidents fear UK plan to restart extraditions will put them in danger www.theguardian.com/law/2025/oct... #HongKong #HongKongProtests #China #NationalSecurityLaw #UnitedKingdom #ExtraditionTreaty #Activists #Dissidents #ArrestWarrant #HomeOffice #JimmyLai #Democracy #Colonialism

Screen scrape of news article mentioned reads: This piece must be carefully written to avoid my being imprisoned for up to 14 years. That's a curious sentence to say as a newspaper columnist in Britain in 2025. But since the government voted to proscribe the direct action protest group Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act, any statement seen as expressing support could lead to arrest and prosecution.

I believe this applies to foreign nationals too. #ExtraditionTreaty