A Hong Kong pro-democracy group said on Tuesday it had filed a complaint with the United Nations over what it described as abuse of anti-government protesters held in custody in the Chinese-ruled city.
FILE PHOTO: Joshua Wong, secretary-general of Hong Kong's pro-democracy Demosisto party and leader of the"Umbrella Movement," testifies at a Congressional-Executive Commission on China hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., September 17, 2019. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts/File Photo
Joshua Wong, secretary-general of Demosisto, said the inmates’ treatment fell under the definition of “torture” as laid out in the U.N. Convention Against Torture, and the complaint had been sent to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. They were detained as the novel coronavirus closed courts and they waited for Hong Kong’s judicial system to determine their fate over charges related to anti-government protests.
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