Hong Kong’s second-ranking government official defended the city’s human rights record at a United Nations review session – a response non-governmental organizations have criticized as “evasive and disappointing." Chief Secretary for Administration Matthew Cheung spoke at the Universal Periodic Review for China in Geneva.
At the three-hour long session, representatives from around 150 countries gave comments and recommendations on the human rights situation in China, Hong Kong and Macau. The group condemned the government’s “irresponsible, wholesale denial” of human rights problems in Hong Kong.
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