China News Service, April 12. According to the WeChat official account of the Commissioner's Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Hong Kong, the US State Department spokesperson Price and other politicians and organizations made irresponsible remarks about the Hong Kong SAR police's law enforcement against suspects suspected of conspiring to publish seditious publications. The spokesperson of the Commissioner's Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Hong Kong expressed strong dissatisfaction and firm opposition, urging external forces to immediately stop unreasonable and boring political performances.
The spokesman said that Hong Kong is a society governed by the rule of law, where laws must be abided by and those who violate the law must be prosecuted.
The rights and freedoms enjoyed by Hong Kong residents in accordance with the law, including freedom of speech and the press, are fully guaranteed.
But freedom of the press is not a "pass" for breaking the law.
Anyone who engages in activities that endanger national security, undermine the rule of law and social order in the name of "press freedom" is a blasphemy against press freedom and will be punished by law.
The actions taken by the Hong Kong police in accordance with the law are a manifestation of the principle of the rule of law in Hong Kong.
The spokesman pointed out that some external forces have taken the risk of the world and made unwarranted accusations against the SAR police for law enforcement. It is a futile political performance trying to play the "Hong Kong card" to interfere in China's internal affairs.
Individual politicians and organizations claim to care about the "press freedom" of others, but they turn a blind eye to their country's frequent shutdown of news websites, frequent obstruction of journalists to participate in government public activities, and unwarranted suppression of other countries' media and journalists.
This double-standard operation fully confirms the deceptiveness of the so-called "press freedom", and the world has long seen their hypocritical and ugly "teacher" face.
The spokesman stressed that Hong Kong is China's Hong Kong and Hong Kong affairs are purely China's internal affairs.
No grandstanding political performance can shake China's firm determination to fully and accurately implement the "one country, two systems" policy, nor can it stop the historical trend of Hong Kong's transition from chaos to governance and prosperity from governance to prosperity.
We urge individual politicians to recognize the general trend, change course, and immediately stop interfering in Hong Kong affairs and China's internal affairs under any pretext.