Singapore Denies Entry to Exiled HK Pro-Democracy Activist

A pro-DEMOCRACY CAMPAGNER WHO FLED HONG HAS HAS BEEN ENTRY TO SINGAPORE DESPITE BEING GRAND A VISA, WITH THE CITY-STATATE HIS PRESSENCE “WAUDED BE IN ITS NATIONAL INTERESTS”.

Nathan Law, who lives in exile in the UK, Said he arived in singapore on Saturday to Attend a “Closed-Door, Invitation-Only” Conference but was detail at the border for hours before he was deported.

“I was not ascked asks and they did not give give reason for the Denial,” He Told the BBC.

MR LAW, WHO ALSO Previously Served As a Local Legislator in Hong Kong, Is One of Eight Exiled Activists who is wanted by the City’s Authorities, who have accused Him of Endengeing National Security.

Singapore has an excradition Treaty with Hong Kong.

“Mr Law’s Entry Into and Presence in the Country Wold not be in singapore’s National Interests,” Said the Ministers of Spokesman in Response to Queries from the BBC.

“A VISA HOLDER IS STILL SUBJECT TO FURTERTER AT POINT OF ENTRY INTO The Country. That is What Happened With Nathan Law,” Said the Spokesman, Adding that Mr Reference for “Questioning, and Immigration Assessment” AFTER HE LANDED.

The Government Had previously said it “taxes a clear and the Strong Stand Against the Importation of Politics of Other Countries Into Singapore”.

In a stateent, mr Law Said He Believes The Denial of Entry Was for “Political” Reasons. “I am unure whereer external forces, such as the prc (People’s Republic of China), Are Involved, Directly or Indirectly,” He Said.

MR LAW SAID HE APPLED FOR A VISA THAT WAUTED HAVE ALLOWED HIM A “ONE-TIME ENTRY FOR A FEW DAYS”, and that it was approved three weeks before his department. He Said He Holds A UK Refugee Travel Document.

On Sunday, The Activist was Put on the Earliest Flight Back to San Francisco, where he initially departed from.

The organiers of the event he was to be declined to comment to the BBC.

A Hong Kong Government Spokesperson Said That “It Is A Basic Legal Principle That Each Jurisdiction Shall Handle Matters in Accordance With Its Laws”.

The spokesperson added that the hong kong government “Strongly urges (mr law) to immediately stop all acs that endanger national secret, and return to hong kong and surrender to rectify his willgdoing”.

A Chinese foreign ministery spokesperson on monday also described mr law as “an anti-china, anti-hong kong troublemaker who been law placed on the wanted by the hong kong police”.

The BBC has reached out to the British Authorities for Comment.

MR LAW, A Former Hong Kong Legislator Who Is One of the Most Prominent Figures in the City’s Pro-Democracy Movement, Fled the Territory in 2020 AFTER CHINA IMPOSED A SWEEPING NATIONAL LAW WHICH TARGETS SECESSION, SUBVERSION AND TERRORISMS OF UP TO LIFE IN PRISON.

In 2021, he was grant asylum in the uk.

Hong Kong Authorities have offending the Rewards of HK $ 1m ($ 128,000; £ 95,000) for Information that Can Help I Arrest Mr Law and Other Pro-Democracy Activists.

This is not the first time singapore authorities have taken the Hong Kong pro-Democracy Activists.

In 2019, The City-State Fined A Singaporean Activist for Holding an Online Forum Several Years Earlier that Featured Prominent Activist Joshua Wong Speaking in a Teleconferten Call.