MP barred from Hong Kong says it was to 'shut me up'

A Liberal Democrat MP barred from entering Hong Kong has told the BBC she believes it was to "shut me up and to silence me". Wera Hobhouse flew to Hong Kong with her husband on Thursday to visit her son and newborn grandson. However she was detained at the airport, questioned and deported.

The MP for Bath, one of more than 40 parliamentarians of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (Ipac) which is critical of Beijing's record on human rights, said she had been given no reason for being refused entry.

A Hong Kong government spokesperson said it was "the duty of [an] immigration officer to ask questions to ascertain that there is no doubt about the purpose of any visit", AFP reported.

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