Photo taken on Aug. 5, 2019 shows China's national flag and the flag of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) on the Golden Bauhinia Square in Hong Kong, south China.(Xinhua/Wu Xiaochu)
"By condoning and endorsing criminal acts without scruples and politicizing a judicial issue, the American politicians have only again exposed their entrenched ideological biases, double standards and insidious intent to mess up Hong Kong," said the spokesperson of the commissioner's office of Chinese foreign ministry in Hong Kong .
HONG KONG, March 28 (Xinhua) -- The Office of the Commissioner of the Chinese Foreign Ministry in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) on Saturday expressed strong disapproval of and firm opposition against some U.S. politicians and institutions criticizing the Hong Kong police's legal action against a district councilor suspected of violating the law.
A spokesperson of the commissioner's office said that the politicians have shown no regard for the law and facts at all, mentioning nothing about the suspect's doxxing and incitement to violence and hatred, heaping groundless accusations instead upon the HKSAR government and police safeguarding law and justice, and trying to smear the central government's Hong Kong policy.
Their remarks have constituted a flagrant interference with Hong Kong's rule of law and judicial independence, the spokesperson said.
The spokesperson highlighted that the rule of law is a core value of the Hong Kong society."Everyone is equal before the law, and every effort is made to ensure laws are observed and strictly enforced and lawbreakers are prosecuted. No demand can ever justify crime, and no position can shield one from the law."
"By condoning and endorsing criminal acts without scruples and politicizing a judicial issue, the American politicians have only again exposed their entrenched ideological biases, double standards and insidious intent to mess up Hong Kong," said the spokesperson.
"But the international community has seen through their absurd logic and hypocrisy long ago, and their plots are doomed to be thwarted," added the spokesperson.■