WASHINGTON—U.S. Reps. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) and Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) joined a group of pro-democracy Hong Kong activists to decry the sentencing of 45 political prisoners, imposed under the special administrative region’s draconian Article 23 that is based on China’s national security law.
“We are outraged about what [Chinese communist leader] Xi Jinping and his cronies are doing with the great people of Hong Kong, who are suffering on their dictatorship,” Smith said at a Nov. 19 press conference outside the Capitol building.
