Singapore yesterday said that it had refused entry to Hong Kong democracy activist Nathan Law over the weekend as his presence would not be in the city-state’s “national interests. The activist, who holds a UK refugee travel document, said that he had been denied entry when he tried to pass immigration after his plane landed at Singapore’s Changi Airport from San Francisco on Saturday.
He said he was sent back on Sunday on a plane to San Francisco.“ Law’s entry into and presence in the country would not be in Singapore’s national interests,” the Singaporean Ministry of Home Affairs said in a statement.
“A visa holder is still subject to further checks at point of entry into the country. That is what happened with Nathan Law,” it said. Law had fled from Hong Kong in 2020 and the police there issued a warrant for his arrest for offenses under the National Security Law, the ministry said.
