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UK grants asylum to ex-staffer at its Hong Kong consulate

by Associated Press
| July 2, 2020 11:27 PM

LONDON (AP) — A former employee at the British consulate in Hong Kong has been granted political asylum in what he believes is the first successful U.K. asylum case from the former British colony.

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