UK Foreign Secretary Lammy, Home Secretary Cooper call on China to stop targeting opposition voices living in Britain.

Critics fear a legal change quietly announced by the Government will end the five-year ban on people being sent from the UK to face justice in the former colony.

Proposed changes to Extradition Act 2003 trigger opposition and fear that Hong Kong activists seeking refuge in Britain could be sent back to city.

David Lammy and Yvette Cooper describe the bounties as "another example of transnational repression".

UK Foreign Secretary Lammy, Home Secretary Cooper call on China to stop targeting opposition voices living in Britain.

UK officials also say Britain has taken steps to ‘complete the severing of ties’ between the extradition systems of the country and Hong Kong.