HK CEO can't help activists held in China

By Jessie Pang and Donny Kwok
Updated September 22 2020 - 4:31pm, first published 4:23pm
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam says she can't demand rights for 12 activists held in China.
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam says she can't demand rights for 12 activists held in China.

Hong Kong has no legal basis to demand that any particular rights be extended to 12 Hong Kong people detained in China as they tried to flee by boat and they will have to face the law there, the city's chief executive says.

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