This Nov 17, 2016 photo shows the Office of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) in Central. (PARKER ZHENG / CHINA DAILY)

HONG KONG - The Commissioner's Office of the Foreign Ministry in the HKSAR on Tuesday expressed strong condemnation of and firm opposition to US Senators’ comments on the arrest of Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai Chee-ying.

In a statement, a spokesman for office said that the US and its politicians have been repeatedly interfering in the rule of law and judicial independence of Hong Kong, by pointing fingers at the city’s law-enforcement actions under the pretext of human rights and freedom. 

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The spokesman stressed that the HKSAR is part of China where rule of law is abided by. Any remark or act with the intent to cause troubles in Hong Kong is doomed to fail.

Some US politicians have been openly glorifying Lai and his ilk, who have long been engaging in anti-China and troublemaking activities in Hong Kong, the spokesman said.

Such despicable acts have confused the right and wrong, brazenly interfered in the internal affairs of China and the SAR, and undermined the prosperity, stability and rule of law in Hong Kong, the spokesman added. 

The spokesman stressed that the HKSAR is part of China where rule of law is abided by. Any remark or act with the intent to cause troubles in Hong Kong is doomed to fail.

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On Monday, members of the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Jim Risch and Bob Menendez issued a joint statement expressing concern over the arrest of Lai, saying he and two other people arrested on Friday have “done nothing more than seeking to exercise their rights to free speech, assembly, association and the press under Hong Kong’s own Basic Law”.