Story highlights China's Wang Yi calls Canadian reporter "arrogant"

"Other people don't know better," he says after a question about human rights

(CNN) A Canadian reporter earned an angry rebuke from China's Foreign Minister over a question about the country's human rights record.

"Your question is full of prejudice against China and arrogance," Wang Yi said, visibly angry, after iPolitics reporter Amanda Connolly asked about missing Hong Kong booksellers and Canadian Kevin Garratt , who has been charged with spying in China.

"Other people don't know better than the Chinese people about the human rights condition in China and it is the Chinese people who are in the best situation, in the best position to have a say about China's human rights situation," he said.

Chinese foreign minister not impressed with question about their human rights record #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/YmJTRHGc0X — Amanda Connolly (@amandacconn) June 1, 2016

'Wildly absurd' accusations

Earlier in the press conference, Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion told reporters he had raised Garratt's case with Wang.