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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
David Hughes

Pro-democracy activists jailed in Hong Kong day after Starmer met President Xi

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer during a bilateral meeting with President Xi Jinping of China (Stefan Rousseau/PA) - (PA Wire)

The UK has criticised China for jailing dozens of pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong the day after Sir Keir Starmer raised human rights concerns with Xi Jinping.

The timing of the sentencing is embarrassing for Sir Keir, who became the first UK prime minister since 2018 to meet the Chinese leader when they held talks in the margins of the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro on Monday.

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