G-7 Expresses ‘Grave Concern’ Over Hong Kong Leader’s Election
- Group says voting process an attack on city’s basic freedoms
- Hong Kong moving away from aims of Basic Law, G-7 says
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The foreign ministers of the Group of Seven most industrialized nations expressed “grave concern” over the process by which Hong Kong selected its next chief executive, calling it an assault on the fundamental freedoms of the former British colony that returned to Chinese control in 1997.
The G-7 statement Monday came a day after John Lee, 64, a former police official who helped incumbent Chief Executive Carrie Lam crack down on massive and sometimes-violent democracy protests in 2019, was elected to the city’s top post in a near-unanimous ballot by a Beijing-controlled committee.