A group of British lawmakers have urged the UK government to impose sanctions on Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam and other senior officials, for allowing the police to use excessive violence and force on pro-democracy protesters.

In a report that discussed the treatment of aid workers during the protests, the lawmakers said the Hong Kong Police Force had “breached international humanitarian law and principles, international human rights, and the Sino-British Joint Declaration.”

The report said that humanitarian aid workers were subjected to “intimidation, harassment, threats, physical violence, and arrests” during the protests that began last year in response to the introduction of extradition law. Even doctors and nurses “received treatment that fell short of international human rights law.”

Lawmakers in the UK urged the UK government to “explore whether the targeted humanitarian aid workers fall within the purview of the Refugee Convention and consider how they could be best assisted.”

This informal cross-party said that “the UK should urgently impose Magnitsky-style sanctions on those responsible for permitting the excessive police violence at a high level in the administration, including but not limited to Chief Executive Carrie Lam and the Commissioner of Police.”

It was first set up in November 2019 in response to the escalating political and social crisis in Hong Kong, which had been triggered by the extradition law.

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