14 minutes agoHong Kong crisis: Britain gives citizenship rights to 3 million residents Hang-congas
Periskopi(6 years ago)
(6 years ago)Up to three million residents of Hong Kong will get the chance to settle in Great Britain and gain its citizenship, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said. The prime minister said Hong Kong's freedoms were violated by the new security law and those to be affected by it [...]
The prime minister said Hong Kong's freedoms were violated by the new security law and those affected by it would receive the right to leave the former United Kingdom colony.
About 350 thousand British passport holders, and another 2.6 million that are acceptable, will be able to come to Britain for five years, reports the BBC, translates Periscopi.
After another year, they will be able to apply for citizenship.
The prime minister said that the passage of the new security law that took place yesterday by authorities in Hong Kong was “a serious and clear breach of” of the 1985 Sino-britanic joint declaration a binding agreement with law defining freedoms that would protect for 50 years after China established its sovereignty in 1997. /Periscope
