Today, the 27th anniversary of the handover of Hong Kong is a day of mourning, but also a day of remembrance — and action.Churches in Holy Land denounce ‘coordinated attack’ against Christians by Israeli authoritiesHongkongers living in Taiwan and members of local civic groups march with a banner bearing the images of 47 of Hong Kong’s most prominent pro-democracy figures during a rally in Taipei on June 9 to mark the fifth anniversary of the start of Hong Kong's 2019-2020 mass protests.
Pro-democracy parties and candidates could still contest and win seats in the Legislative Council and the District Council. Protests could still take place. People could still express their opinions. In 2019 the Hong Kong government proposed a new law to allow for the extradition of people from Hong Kong into mainland China, shattering the firewall that separated the two legal systems and undermining the city’s autonomy. That sparked fresh mass protests, which resulted in wholly disproportionate and barbaric police brutality.
Hong Kong’s legislature — which used to be a vibrant debating chamber — is now simply a rubber stamp, a mere puppet subsidiary of Beijing’s National People’s Congress, and Lee, as a former serving police officer whose only experience of government has been in the Security Bureau, symbolizes the police state.
And we should remember the 47 former legislators and activists, in jail for holding a primary election to choose the pro-democracy camp’s candidates for what was to have been the 2020 Legislative Council elections. Those elections were postponed with the excuse of the Covid-19 pandemic, and those pro-democracy politicians and campaigners were arrested and jailed on Jan. 6, 2021.
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