Billionaire Pansy Ho tells UN human rights body she feels repressed by Hong Kong protests
- 5 years ago
Prominent businesswoman Pansy Ho Chiu-king has told the UN’s top human rights body that anti-government protests in Hong Kong are repressive and harmful to the city’s economy. Ho was representing the Hong Kong Federation of Women when she made the remarks in a September 11, 2019, speech before the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva. The Macau casino heiress told the UN body that she thinks young people in Hong Kong were being radicalised to carry out acts of “violent extremism”,…