According to RIA Novosti, the UN representative called on the Hong Kong authorities to investigate complaints about the use of excessive force in dispersing protesters.
"China strongly opposes the article by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, published in a Hong Kong newspaper on November 30, which contained inappropriate comments about the situation in Hong Kong," said a statement by the Chinese Permanent Mission to the UN Geneva Office.
Diplomats said that such statements were an interference in the internal affairs of China and a violation of the purposes and principles of the UN Charter. The Permanent Representative of the People's Republic of China specified that Bachelet and her office had a strict view.
Earlier it became known that Deputy Foreign Minister Le Yucheng summoned the US ambassador to Beijing Terry Branstead and expressed his protest in connection with the signing by the President of the United States Donald Trump of the law "On the Protection of Human Rights and Democracy in Hong Kong."