UK trained Hong Kong riot police
The Sunday Mirror|November 13, 2022
MoD admits teaching 'brutal' cops
NIGEL NELSON
UK trained Hong Kong riot police

BRITISH military staff trained the Hong Kong police who later beat up pro-democracy activists, the MoD has admitted.

Instructors were sent to China nine times between 2014 and 2020, Armed Forces Minister James Heappey revealed.

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