In this report, Raab more firmly warns China against interference and reiterates the UK's right to comment on Hong Kong. Raab said that Beijing's "plans to impose new security laws bypassing the Hong Kong legislature are in direct conflict with international law".[29] The report requests that China abstain from interfering in the September elections in Hong Kong, and accuses the Chinese government of torturing a British diplomat, Simon Cheng, who visited the Mainland when working at the British Consulate in Hong Kong.[29] Six days later, the UK said that a new human rights law, which has been stalled in Whitehall for several months, could be used to "sanction Chinese officials if Beijing presses ahead" with the national security law.[2] The British law is to be a form of Magnitsky legislation, for the government to sanction those who commit acts repressing human rights.[39]