Police are investigating Chinese embassy guards for brandishing weapons at protestors, it can be revealed, as a legal challenge began against its plans for a huge new building.
Officers rushed to Beijing‘s current diplomatic mission in central London after Tibetan activists said they were threatened by security staff with stun batons.
Scotland Yard is now studying video footage of the incident which the pro-democracy campaigners say shows electroshock weapons – classified as illegal firearms in the UK – sparking and crackling.
The incident at the start of July has prompted fresh calls for ministers to U-turn on allowing China to build a new
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