Bipartisan Lawmaker Group Calls for Sanctions on Hong Kong Officials Over Human Rights

Police watch people entering the West Kowloon Magistrates' Court in Hong Kong on July 5, 2024, where pro- democracy activist Joshua Wong and five others appear for their mitigation session in the biggest case against pro-democracy campaigners known as the 47, since China imposed a national security law to crush dissent. Peter PARKS / AFP via Getty Images

A bipartisan group of House Representatives urged the Biden administration to sanction 28 officials, identified as responsible for infringing on human rights and persecuting pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong.

“We write to express our profound concern over the recent actions by Hong Kong authorities that have further eroded democracy, the rule of law, and human rights in the region,” the group wrote in a July 17 letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen.