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Hong Kong’s prominent pro-democracy party to disband

Chairman and co-founder of the Civic Party, Alan Leong, says his organisation ‘will disappear from Earth’. The party has voted to disband due to a leadership vacuum, after its members were squeezed out of local councils and charged under Beijing’s national security law. – AFP pic, May 27, 2023.

THE Civic Party, one of Hong Kong’s most prominent pro-democracy groups, voted today to disband due to a leadership vacuum, after its members were squeezed out of local councils and charged under Beijing’s national security law. Nicknamed “the barristers’ party”, it was founded in 2006 by professional elites – mostly from the legal sector – who wanted to promote democratisation and civil society in Hong Kong.

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