Manchester Chinese consulate staff who attacked protesters returned home, says Cleverly

Foreign secretary James Cleverly has said the Chinese consulate staff who attacked protesters outside their consular building in Manchester have been sent home.

'In response to our request the Chinese government have now removed from the UK those officials, including the consul general himself. This demonstrates our adherence to the rule of law,' Cleverly said on Wednesday.

Consular staff attacked a group of pro-democracy demonstrators in mid-October after they attempted to take down a banner taunting Chinese president Xi Jinping. One of the protesters emerged badly bruised after he was dragged into the compound and beaten.

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[Aragorn]

Action of UK police hasn’t been quick enough to arrest those Chinese criminal before they run away. What a shame.

[brooklynmack]

Not much effect. They aren't being held accountable, they are just going home or being transferred.

[surpenc]

What a fkn shambles and laughingly stock we are.Not only can't we stop anyone coming in here we can't stop anyone leaving.

[ViharS]

They should have been detained in jail not so cleverly dealt

[heartofoak]

Also, may I remind people that, I think, in the early sixties, there was an incident outside the Chinese embassy in London whereby embassy staff came out onto the street and attacked, with a machete demonstrators and caught up in that attack was a metropolitan police officer.

[bikokch]

It doesn’t mean anything. Pick a staff and send him home telling our gov, hey, we’ve done something. That’s it.

[jay]

Everyone moaning please stop. They're diplomats. They're almost unprosecutable!

[abidamjad]

Not so cleverly dealt with a situation by Cleverly 😂😂😂

[IlIBonesIlI]

Doesn't violence while representing a country constitute an Act of War? There should be tribunals and investigations while these people are kept detained, not given a free ticket back home.

[isellyis]

What a hero police officer, took his own risk to safe the guy. Please kick those violent people out of our country and protect our police force.

[fatedtolive]

"so, this guy walks up to me, punches me in the face, and touches up my wife. I tell him that I'm going to call the cops, and he runs off. That makes me the

[devoltaaocaminho]

The greatest legislator of all times, left us a clear warning: when an individual seeks to know the laws with the clear intention of looking for loopholes, in some of the laws, with the purpose of being armored, when caught in a crime, for deliberate non-compliance, of that or those laws that were instituted for the benefit of a whole society or nation, and if you make use of this lack of any and all scruples, the penalty is non-pardon.

[th.trumpet]

Should've shaved their heads so they look like Hulk Hogan first, then tattooed "I love America" onto their fods.

[lindahunter]

Oh yeah, passports checked on the way out? Stamped never to return??

[ugwxerw]

😂 we have such a weak government. And weaker opposition.

[Jj-tyqh]

How about prosecuting people who break the law on this land. Diplomatic immunity does not give you the right to break the law wth impunity.

[wurschtel]

Looks like the UK, free from EU shackles, is finally respected as a great power again.

[wever]

Then the British embassy officials have to be more careful when they pay the protesters on the streets of Shanghai in the future, because if they are caught by the Chinese police again, they may not be let go.

[michaelsaunders]

So is the consulate empty ? Move some homeless people in, after all, your government says it will give help to the homeless

[GoldenCalfChannel]

Too loose, the assets of Chinese diplomats in the UK should be frozen immediately