China’s foreign ministry has defended an incident that saw a Hong Kong protester pulled into Chinese consulate grounds in the British megacity of Manchester and beaten up.

A spokesperson said people had” immorally entered” the grounds and any country’s diplomats would have taken” necessary measures” to cover their demesne.
Police are probing an assault on a pro-democracy protester on Sunday.

Footage shows men arising from the consulate and dragging a man outside.
The violence has urged loud calls for the UK government to summon China’s minister and conceivably take further action.

The protester, linked as Bob, suffered several physical injuries and spent a night in the sanitarium for treatment. The police disquisition is continuing.
But China is sticking to a different interpretation of events from the police.

” People( who) intended to beget nuisance entered the Chinese Consulate-General in Manchester immorally. hanging the safety of a Chinese political installation,” said foreign ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin at a diurnal press briefing in Beijing.

He added that any attempt to infringe on the consulate’s” tranquillity and quality” would” not be permitted”.

According to a statement by the Greater Manchester Police, around 30 to 40 people had gathered outside the consulate and details were in the area to help maintain the” peaceful kick”.

” Shortly ahead 4 pm a small group of men came out of the structure and a man was dragged into the consulate grounds and assaulted,” a police statement said.

” Due to our fears for the safety of the man, officers interposed and removed the victim from the consulate grounds.”

The consulate says protesters had displayed an insulting portrayal of China’s chairman.

Bob told BBC Chinese that” landmass”- people from landmass China, as opposed to Hong Kong- had come out of the consulate and destroyed their bills.

“As we tried to stop them, they dragged me inside, and they beat me up,” he said. “It’s ridiculous. They [the attackers] shouldn’t have done that. We are supposed to have the freedom to say whatever we want here [in the UK].”

There are growing calls for the UK foreign clerk to summon China’s minister in Britain for an explanation.
The BBC has communicated with the Chinese consulate in Manchester and the delegacy in London for comment but has not heard back.

On Tuesday, Hong Kong leader John Lee counted in on the event, saying it should be dealt with in agreement with original laws.
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The kick took place on the same day China demurred off its doubly-a-decade Communist Party Congress, where its leader President Xi Jinping is extensively anticipated to secure a third term in power.

Mr. Xi had on Sunday made reference to the situation in Hong Kong, saying Beijing had turned the situation in the megacity from” chaos to governance”.

Beijing assessed a broad public security law on the former British colony after pro-democracy demonstrations in 2019.