The U.S. State Department has expressed serious concerns about the continued deterioration of freedoms in Hong Kong, telling Beijing to cease its “politically motivated prosecutions” and release those “unjustly detained” in the regime’s ever-expanding clampdown.
“We note in particular the increase in politically motivated prosecutions, including through the National Security Law, targeting Hong Kong’s teachers, labor unions, lawyers, journalists, health care workers, student unions, and individual citizens,” State Department spokesperson Ned Price said in a statement.
