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Visitors to Commons forced to hand over leaflets on press freedom in Hong Kong

Officials claim material about Jimmy Lai constituted political slogans but David Davis calls heavy-handed approach ‘completely daft’

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Parliamentary security guards confiscated reports and leaflets about Hong Kong from attenders of an event in Westminster in case they caused political upset, the Guardian has learned, in a move condemned by a senior Conservative MP as “completely daft”.

Officers on the parliamentary estate forced people attending a meeting of the all-party parliamentary group on Hong Kong last Monday to hand over a report by the group about press freedom there, as well as leaflets campaigning for the release of the media tycoon Jimmy Lai.

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