Authorities have imposed some of the worldвЂ™s most stringent travel rules, with overseas visitors required to quarantine for up to three weeks. Hong Kong has been conforming to ChinaвЂ™s Covid-zero strategy as the city seeks to reestablish quarantine-free travel with the mainland. Before the pandemic, the figure was close to 4,000.ДЄirlinesВ face a return to the uncertainty of shifting rules and public-health developments that threw customer plans into chaos and undermined demand earlier in the pandemic. The cityвЂ™s marquee carrier has scheduled just 150 inbound services in January, the lowest monthly total since May. has almost halved the number of flights into Hong Kong from outside China next month, according to aviation data company Cirium, in the wake of tougher quarantine restrictions on flight crew. The Guardian has contacted the Labour party for comment.Hong Kong is becoming increasingly shut off from the outside world because of its strict Covid-19 policies as the city imposes a raft of flight bans and airlines slash inbound services.Д¬athay Pacific Airways Ltd. вЂњAll peers who value democracy must oppose these dangerous amendments вЂ“ and while there is vocal opposition from across the house and from cross-party peers itвЂ™s vital that the opposition are clear and ensure this opportunity is taken to protect our fundamental rights.вЂќ Martha Spurrier, the director of Liberty, said: вЂњIt is the role of the House of Lords to act as a check on this type of power grab, to temper the most dangerous and authoritarian tendencies of the government of the day. It is absolutely vital that all opposition parties vote against the governmentвЂ™s new amendments in order to protect our protest rights and those of future generations.вЂќ вЂњLabour peers have an opportunity to stop these draconian proposals dead in their tracks. Mark Johnson, legal and policy officer at Big Brother Watch, said: вЂњThe governmentвЂ™s move to add Orwellian anti-protest amendments to the policing bill at this late stage is nothing short of a cynical attempt to bypass parliamentary scrutiny. Human rights organisations joined the calls to oppose the changes. I hope they will join us and stand up for effective policing and peopleвЂ™s rights.вЂќ вЂњIf Labour and Conservative peers take a stand and join us then we can stop these reckless Conservative plans. вЂњThis is particularly true for minority communities, where the use of вЂsuspicion-lessвЂ™ stop and search sees black people 18 times more likely to be stopped than white people,вЂќ Paddick said. Brian Paddick, a former senior officer in the Metropolitan police, who has led the partyвЂ™s opposition to the bill, said further stop and search powers would have a вЂњchilling effectвЂќ on the right to protest. The Liberal Democrats, who have 84 members in the lords, have already vowed to oppose the bill. They also include an expansion of powers for stop and search without suspicion around protests, as well as вЂњserious disruption prevention ordersвЂќ that will allow authorities to ban named individuals from participating in demonstrations or even using the internet to encourage others to do so.

Ironically, it could be the governmentвЂ™s attempt to bypass parliamentary scrutiny by MPs, that enables the lords to defeat these 18 pages of new amendments.вЂќДЄmong other powers, the new amendments will impose potential 51-week sentences for protesters who attach themselves to another person, to an object, or to land, or for protests that obstruct in any way major transport works from being carried out. вЂњThese draconian laws, that will make effective protests illegal, should be seen as part of the attack on our democracy designed to keep a corrupt government in power and minimise opposition. вЂњIf a rebellion by the Lords in defence of civil liberties has any chance of defeating these police state laws, then we need the Labour party to join those of us who plan to oppose the government,вЂќ Jones said. Unlike the rest of the bill, however, where the lords can merely send amendments back to the Commons to be reconsidered, because the latest amendments were introduced in the House of Lords they will fall if peers vote against them.Д«ut that can only happen if Labour agrees to oppose them, according to the Green party peer Jenny Jones. The 18 pages of amendments to the police, crime, sentencing and courts bill were introduced by government peers in November, on the day nine members of the protest group Insulate Britain appeared in court charged with contempt. The Labour party has been urged to take advantage of a unique opportunity to vote down a raft of last-minute amendments to an already controversial crime bill, which human rights activists have described as вЂњa dangerous power grabвЂќ.

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