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Tory peer Lord Patten of Barnes said he found it ‘astonishing’ that the Public Order Bill was being proposed.

Britain summoned China's ambassador on Tuesday to raise the treatment of a British journalist whose employer, the BBC, said had been assaulted by Chinese police while he was covering a protest in Shanghai. The incident has deepened long-running diplomatic tension between Britain and China over a range of issues including…

UK warns Beijing there is ‘absolutely no excuse’ for reporters to be ‘beaten by the police’.

Incident came ahead of speech in which PM will set out ‘robust pragmatism’ policy towards Beijing

Journalist Ed Lawrence was beaten after being arrested at a protest against China’s strict Covid restrictions, broadcaster says

THE UK has warned Beijing there was “absolutely no excuse” for a BBC journalist covering protests in China to be “beaten by the police”.

Grant Shapps said there was ‘no excuse’ for the treatment of Edward Lawrence by Chinese authorities.

Footage on social media showed a man whom other journalists identified as the BBC’s Ed Lawrence being arrested.

The BBC said on Sunday one of its journalists in China had been arrested and beaten by police while covering protests against the country's zero-Covid policy. Hundreds of people took to the streets in China's major cities on Sunday in a rare outpouring of public anger against the state, AFP…