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US Lawmakers Condemn Beijing's Crackdowns in Hong Kong

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   Two prominent members of the U.S. Congress issued a stern warning to
   China on Friday in response to arrest warrants issued for six
   pro-democracy activists, including a U.S citizen, under Hong Kong's new
   national security law.

   Chinese state television said Friday Hong Kong authorities had issued
   warrants for Nathan Law, Wayne Chan Ka-kui, Honcques Laus, Simon Cheng,
   Ray Wong Toi-yeung and Samuel Chu, a U.S. citizen. The six have fled
   the territory and are wanted on suspicion of violating the national
   security legislation that entered into force a month ago.

   Congressman Eliot Engel, Chairman of the House of Representatives
   Foreign Affairs Committee,'¯and'¯Senator Robert Menendez, the senior
   Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said in a
   statement, "If Beijing thinks that this effort will silence those who
   stand for freedom, democracy, human rights and the rule of'¯law, it'¯is
   gravely mistaken: Today we are all Hong'¯Kongers."

   Engel and Menendez said they were deeply concerned by the decision of
   pro-Beijing authorities of the semi-autonomous territory, which
   included "an extraterritorial'¯warrant for the arrest'¯of'¯an
   individual who has been a United'¯States'¯citizen for over two
   decades."

   "This'¯action only further undermines the'¯credibility of China as a
   responsible'¯rule-abiding member of the international community," they
   said.

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