Wimbledon has come under pressure to drop HSBC as a sponsor over the bank’s support of the national security law in Hong Kong.
In a letter to the tennis championship’s Chief Executive Sally Bolton, lawmakers from the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Hong Kong asked Bolton to reconsider Wimbledon’s involvement with HSBC, which they said had “repeatedly enabled and supported the Beijing-backed Hong Kong authorities to commit brutal human rights abuses against Hongkongers.”
The letter, seen by The Epoch Times, said HSBC had become “complicit in gross human rights abuses” in Hong Kong when it voiced its support for the national security law….