Hindustan Times (Chandigarh)

UK halts extraditio­n, arms sales with HK

- Prasun Sonwalkar

LONDON: Britain suspended its extraditio­n treaty and blocked arms sales with Hong Kong on Monday, after China imposed a tough new national security law.

London’s action follows last week’s ban on Chinese company Huawei, high-profile expression of concern over suppressio­n of Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang and previous offer of a path to UK citizenshi­p to Hong Kong citizens holding the British National (Overseas) passports.

“The government has decided to suspend the extraditio­n treaty immediatel­y and indefinite­ly,” foreign secretary Dominic Raab told the House of Commons.

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