'A new low': World reacts after Hong Kong arrests 90-year-old Cardinal Joseph Zen

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : The International Religious Freedom Summit 2022, which will bring together religious freedom advocates worldwide in Washington, D.C., from June 28 to June 30, called the arrest "shameful" and "troubling."
49% :Katrina Lantos Swett, former chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, called the arrest outrageous.
44% : The U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China said in a statement that the arrests are part of the "Hong Kong government's effort to dismantle the institutions safeguarding the rule of law and human rights of the Hong Kong people as it has systematically targeted civil society groups, threatening them with criminal investigation and prosecution under the pretext of national security."
36% :The group's president and CEO, Andrew Bremberg, who served as the U.S. representative to the European Office of the United Nations during the Trump administration, called for the "unconditional release from all charges and detention of Cardinal Zen, Jimmy Lai, and all political prisoners who have been victimized under Hong Kong's draconian policies."
27% :Sam Brownback, the former U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom, said the Chinese Communist Party has "sunk to a new low.""It is outrageous," Brownback, the former senator and governor of Kansas, tweeted.

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