China disputes the account of events which took place during a demonstration on October 16, saying protesters had stormed its grounds.
LONDON, United Kingdom – A man who was protesting outside a Chinese consulate in Britain said he was dragged inside the grounds by masked men, kicked and punched in an attack British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly described on Wednesday as “unacceptable.”
Footage on social media showed a man, wearing a black cap and with a ponytail, being hauled through a gate into the consular grounds, where he was assaulted by five men as he lay on the ground. He said the attack only stopped when a police officer moved in to free him. He was left with bruising to his eye, head, neck and all over his back, he told reporters.
“They were on British soil and it is absolutely unacceptable for this kind of behaviour,” Cleverly told broadcasters.‘God kill CPC’ He said that a protester had grabbed a member of staff during a scuffle and refused to let go. Colleagues had pulled them inside and the attacker “continued assaulting our staff member and so our staff were forced to disentangle his hands”.
Cleverly said Britain would decide “what more we might need to do” once the police conclude their inquiry.Iain Duncan Smith, a former leader of the governing Conservative Party, said the government should have told the ambassador they were sending a series of people home.
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