U.S. group vows support for Hong Kong despite China's sanctions

Freedom House, a Washington-based pro-democracy group on which China has imposed sanctions in retaliation for the recent U.S. enactment of a Hong Kong human rights law, pledged Monday to continue supporting people in the Chinese territory.The group is one of several nongovernmental organizations that the Chinese government has said are subject to its sanctions, though it has not spelled out just what such sanctions may be."This threat of sanctions from China's authoritarian regime is antithetical to democratic values and universal human rights," Freedom House President Michael Abramowitz sa…READ FULL ARTICLE