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Seeking a democratic China in Hong Kong may be outlawed, June 4 candlelight vigil organizers say

蘋果日報 2020/06/02 12:33


Organizers of the annual candlelight vigil that commemorates a student-led pro-democracy movement in 1989 believe their group could be outlawed with the recently passed national security laws to be imposed on Hong Kong.
Tonyee Chow Hang-tung, vice president of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, said in an interview with Apple Daily that she expects the group to be accused of inciting subversion of state power as it has called for a democratic China with an end to one-party rule.
“The Alliance is fully aware that our aims will be considered to be inciting subversion of state power under the Chinese legal framework...In any case [Beijing] will make you disappear from society,” she said in an interview.
The Alliance has organised an annual event to commemorate the democratic movement that was quashed in 1989. Each year the vigil attracts participants in tens of thousands, but this year’s congregation has been banned by Hong Kong police citing the need for social distancing in view of new clusters of COVID-19 cases.
There are growing concerns that Beijing’s move to insert its own version of national security laws into Hong Kong’s legal system will lead to future crackdowns on dissident groups in the city.
Chow said however the Alliance will continue its work “as long as we live”.
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