Australia, UK, Canada, NZ Foreign Affairs Committee Chairs Request UN Special Envoy to Hong Kong

Riot police detain a protester during a demonstration against Beijing's national security legislation in Causeway Bay in Hong Kong on May 24, 2020. AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File

The Chairs of the Foreign Affairs Committees in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom (UK), and New Zealand have called on the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to send a special envoy to Hong Kong to protect the rule of law and human rights.

In a joint letter released on June 2, Australian Senator David Fawcett, Canadian MP Michael Levitt, New Zealand MP Simon O'Connor, and UK MP Tom Tugendhat said that Hong Kong was experiencing an “erosion of the rule of law and an increasingly serious and urgent human rights situation.”