China's ambassador to the UK has been summoned to the Foreign Office after a BBC reporter who was covering protests against the regime's 'zero Covid' policy in Shanghai was arrested, government sources said on Tuesday. British.
Ambassador Zheng Zeguang was summoned after the arrest of journalist Edward Lawrence, who the BBC said was "
beaten and kicked
" by police in Shanghai.
On Monday, British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly called these facts "
deeply worrying
".
