HONG KONG, July 11 — Pro-democracy parties in Hong Kong held primary polls today to choose candidates for upcoming legislative elections despite warnings from government officials that it may be in breach of a new security law imposed by China. Thousands queued in the intense summer heat at...
Voters queue up to vote during primary elections aimed for selecting democracy candidates, in Hong Kong, China July 11, 2020. — Reuters pic
“The more Hong Kong people were suppressed, the firmer Hong Kong people stand,” democracy campaigner Benny Tai, a legal scholar and co-organiser of the primary, said as voting got underway at 250 polling stations.“Under the new national security law, no one knows how many pro-democracy candidates would be allowed to run in the upcoming LegCo election.
Beijing imposed the new law on Hong Kong last week targeting acts of subversion, secession, terrorism and foreign collusion with a maximum penalty of life imprisonment, in response to huge and often violent democracy protests that erupted last year.The law is the most radical change in Hong Kong’s freedoms and autonomy since Britain handed the city back to China in 1997.
“The suppression faced when organising the primary proves that our government have no tolerance for dissidents, to accept a society with diversity and democratic universal suffrage,” Au told media.
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