牛牛保守党认犬委员会副主席本尼迪克特@罗杰斯今天早上在香港机场被拒绝入境，并遭立即押送登机遣返。

British Conservative party activist barred from entering Hong Kong

Benedict Rogers, deputy chair of party’s human rights commission, escorted on to flight out of former British colony

Benedict Rogers, who has been barred from Hong Kong, addressing a pro-democracy protest outside the UK foreign office in August. Photograph: Benedict Rogers

A leading British human rights activist who has been a vocal critic of China’s erosion of Hong Kong’s political freedoms has been barred from entering the former colony on the eve of a key political summit in Beijing.

Benedict Rogers, the deputy chair of the Conservatives’ human rights commission, flew into Hong Kong on Wednesday morning on a Thai Airways flight from Bangkok but said he was stopped at immigration and refused entry.

“They gave me no explanation at all,” he told the Guardian by phone as he prepared to fly back to Thailand on Wednesday afternoon.

“It is absolutely bizarre … I feel shocked. I had received a warning that this might happen so I was mentally prepared for it but was hoping it wouldn’t happen. I feel very shocked. I feel it is yet another example of, if not the death, then the death throes of ‘one country, two systems’.”

Rogers lived in Hong Kong from 1997 to 2002, and said he had been returning on a private visit to see friends, including a number of prominent democracy activists. “I wanted to come and meet people and learn about the current situation,” he said.

Rogers claimed he had been indirectly warned, through a third party, that the Chinese embassy in London was “extremely concerned” about his plans to visit Hong Kong.

“In consultation with others, I took the view that if I were to cave in to pressure from the embassy I would be doing exactly what I have criticised others of doing: kowtowing to China,” Rogers said. “My conscience would not allow me to do that.”

As he was escorted to his flight out of Hong Kong, Rogers said, he turned to the immigration officer taking him to the plane and thanked him for treating him well. “I said: ‘Does this mean “one country, two systems” is dead? Is it “one country, one system” now?’

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领先的英国人权活动家一直直言不讳地批评中国的侵蚀香港的政治自由已经被禁止进入的前殖民地在北京一个关键政治峰会前夕。

本尼迪克特。罗杰斯副主席保守党的人权委员会,飞抵香港周三早上在泰国航空公司的航班从曼谷,但表示他停在移民和拒绝入境。

“他们根本不给我解释,”他通过电话告诉《卫报》,他准备飞回泰国周三下午。

“这绝对是奇怪的…我感到震惊。我收到了一个警告,这可能发生所以我精神上已经准备好,但希望它不会发生。我感到很震惊。我觉得这是另一个例子,如果不是死亡,垂死挣扎的‘一国两制’。”

罗杰斯住在香港从1997年到2002年,并说他已经返回进行私人访问看到朋友,包括许多著名的民主人士。“我想,遇到一些人,了解当前形势,”他说。

罗杰斯称他已经间接地警告说,通过第三方,中国驻伦敦大使馆是“非常担心”他计划访问香港。

“在与他人磋商,我认为如果我要屈服于来自大使馆的压力我会做我有批评别人做什么:磕头中国,”罗杰斯说。“我的良心不允许我这么做。”

他护送他的航班离开香港,罗杰斯说,他转向了移民官把他带到了飞机,感谢他对他很好。”我说:“这是否意味着“一国两制”是死了吗?它是“一个国家,一个系统”了吗?”

”他看着我,很遗憾的是,几乎他的眼睛含着泪水,说:“我只是在做我的工作。我不能发表评论。”

马丁•李,一位资深民主人士其中罗杰斯曾希望见面,说他对这一事件感到羞愧。“这应该不会发生在一个自由社会中…香港不应该禁止的观点。应该是国际开放。”

李说,他怀疑北京下令香港当局拒绝罗杰斯条目。“你怎么能说我们有一个高度自治当北京对一个人打破了任何法律干预试图访问香港?”