‘Hypocritical’: Hong Kong hits back at criticism of Joshua Wong’s sentence
Hong Kong has hit back at a joint statement from 10 countries over the latest sentencing of opposition activist Joshua Wong Chi-fung, accusing them of distorting facts and smearing the city’s national security law. The rebuttal came after the US, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand and the UK issued a joint statement on Friday saying the sentencing of Wong, together with the earlier jailing of many others, showed how the city’s national security law...
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[Claude] Report 2 covers the same event: the international criticism of Joshua Wong's sentence that Hong Kong then rebutted, and it does not conflict with Report 1 on any stated facts.
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