Chinese Ambassador to Ireland says concentration camp reports are 'exaggerated'

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The Chinese Ambassador to Ireland He Xiandong has said that reports about the restriction of civil liberties in Hong Kong and concentration camps for Uighur Muslims in the Xinjiang region are exaggerated and fabricated.

Stories about Hong Kong have been exaggerated, he told RTÉ radio’s Today with Sarah McInerney show. There are limits to freedom, he said and any expressions of freedom of speech and assembly have to be subject to law and order and should be peaceful.