A senior member of Hong Kong’s incoming administration has said dozens of former opposition MPs who were arrested or jailed over their fight for democracy “have themselves to blame”, and feels authorities were too lenient.
Speaking to the Guardian from her quarantine hotel room ahead of a ceremony with Chinese president Xi Jinping to mark 25 years since the British handover and the start of new chief executive John Lee’s term, Regina Ip was asked how she felt knowing some former Legislative Council (LegCo) colleagues would be sitting in a jail cell instead of attending the event.
