{"id":72958,"date":"2017-04-27T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=72958 "},"modified":"2017-04-27T15:15:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T15:15:00","slug":"72958-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=72958","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong Widens Crackdown, Arrests 9 More Activists"},"content":{"rendered":"

April 27, 2017 8:25 AM<\/span><\/p>

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Pro-democracy lawmakers Sixtus Leung, left, and Yau Wai-ching speak to the media outside a police station after being released on bail in Hong Kong, April 26, 2017.<\/span><\/p>

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HONG KONG — Hong Kong authorities expanded their crackdown on the Chinese-controlled territory’s opposition with a fresh round of arrests of pro-democracy activists on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>

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Police detained up to nine activists for their apparent involvement in an anti-China protest last year, according to social media posts from two political parties, Demosisto and League of Social Democrats, whose members were among those arrested.<\/span><\/p>

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The arrests come ahead of an expected visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping on July 1 for the 20th anniversary of the city’s handover from Britain to China.<\/span><\/p>

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On Wednesday, police arrested two pro-independence lawmakers who were disqualified in a dispute over their oaths.<\/span><\/p>

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The pair, Sixtus Leung and Yau Wai-ching of the Youngspiration party, were charged with unlawful assembly and attempted forcible entry relating to a scuffle in the legislature’s chamber last November.<\/span><\/p>

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Leung and Yau angered Hong Kong’s Beijing-backed government when they used their swearing-in ceremony in October to stage an apparent protest by inserting anti-China insults into their oaths.<\/span><\/p>

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Their attempts to enter the legislature during subsequent sessions to take their oaths properly descended into chaos when they were barred from the chamber while awaiting a court ruling, which later disqualified them from office.<\/span><\/p>

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The two young activists were part of a new wave of lawmakers advocating greater separation from the mainland. They were newly elected to office last year amid a rising tide of anti-China sentiment in Hong Kong, where fears are rising that Beijing is tightening its grip on the semiautonomous city.<\/span><\/p>

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Leung said the charges, which relate to events on November 2, were “ridiculous.”<\/span><\/p>

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On that day, they scuffled with guards as they barged into the chamber, leaving the council session in disarray.<\/span><\/p>

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“<\/span>We are still lawmakers at that time when we wanted to get into the chamber. Why is it unlawful?” he said.<\/span><\/p>

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The two said the charges were politically motivated.<\/span><\/p>

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“<\/span>We are not afraid of this suppression and we will persist in our beliefs,” Yau said.<\/span><\/p>

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Other cases include:<\/span><\/p>

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Nine people, including university professors, former student leaders and lawmakers, arrested last month on public nuisance charges for their involvement in the 79-day “Umbrella Movement” protests over electoral curbs;<\/span><\/p>

Legal challenges against four pro-democracy lawmakers who the government says also took their oaths improperly;<\/span><\/p>

A lawmaker charged earlier this month with desecrating the Chinese and Hong Kong flags after he inverted some on the desks of pro-government members during one of the chamber’s chaotic sessions last year.<\/span><\/p>

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