Exiled Hong Kong student activist Nathan Law, attended a protest outside Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Rome in 2020. On Saturday, Law was denied entry to Singapore. File Photo by Riccardo Antimiani/EPA
Sept. 29 (UPI) -- A Hong Kong pro-democracy activist living in self-exile was barred from entry to Singapore after arriving on Saturday despite the country having issued him a visa.
Nathan Law came to Singapore to speak at a conference. He had been issued a visa for the closed door, invitation-only event. But when he arrived, he was questioned for four hours then denied entry. He was sent on a flight Sunday back to San Francisco, which is where his plane to Singapore had departed from.
Law lives in Britain and has a British refugee passport. His Hong Kong passport was canceled last year.
The Singapore government cited "national interests" in disallowing Law into the city-state.
