Hong Kong Watch joins 24 signatories in urging UK government to maintain safe humanitarian pathways for Hong Kongers

For World Refugee Day on 20 June, Hong Kong Watch joined 18 Hong Kong community and human rights groups and 6 individual signatories in writing to Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood MP, the Minister of State for Border Security and Asylum Alex Norris MP, and the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Migration and Citizenship Mike Tapp MP, to urge the UK government to maintain safe humanitarian pathways for Hong Kongers facing political persecution and seeking refuge in the UK.

The letter highlighted the obstacles faced by Hong Kongers fleeing political persecution when accessing asylum and humanitarian protections in the UK, including criminality and suitability checks that may not accurately take into account the political nature of Hong Kong’s judiciary processes.

Signatories urged the UK government to maintain safe humanitarian routes to the UK for Hong Kongers and ensure that cases of Hong Kongers with politically motivated prosecutions and convictions are appropriately reviewed in their political, legal and human rights contexts.

You can read the full letter here.

世界難民日 香港監察聯署促請英政府持續保護尋求庇護港人

適逢6月20日世界難民日，香港監察聯同18個香港社區及人權團體和6名獨立聯署人去信英國內政大臣馬曼婷（Shabana Mahmood）、邊境安全及庇護國務大臣Alex Norris MP，以及移民及公民大臣Mike Tapp MP，促請英國政府為因面臨政治迫害而在英國尋求庇護的香港人維持安全的人道主義抵英途徑。

聯署信強調港人為逃離政治迫害而尋求英國庇護和人道保護時面對的障礙，包括相關人員進行犯罪紀錄及適宜性審查時或未準確考慮香港司法程序的政治性質。

聯署人敦促英國政府為尋求英國庇護港人維持安全的人道主義抵英途徑，並確保因政治原因被起訴和定罪港人的申請能按照其政治、法律及人權處境獲得適當的考慮。

你可在這裏閱讀信件全文。

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