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Policy Address 2020: Hong Kong gov’t to introduce new bill setting out legal consequences for oath-breaching
The Hong Kong government will introduce a bill to amend local laws relating to official oath-taking procedures to “deal with” those who have breached their oaths under Article 104 of the Basic Law, according to Wednesday’s policy address. The proposed legislation, presented by Chief Executive Carrie Lam, will set out new arrangements for oath-taking by […]
Hong Kong’s democrat-free legislature will not just become a rubber stamp, says Chief Exec. Carrie Lam
Hong Kong’s chief executive has denied the Legislative Council (LegCo) will become a mere rubber-stamp if all the democrats resign in protest over the disqualification of four elected lawmakers. Following the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPCSC) resolution on lawmakers’ eligibility criteria on Wednesday morning, the government ousted four pro-democracy lawmakers. Chief Executive […]
COMMENTARY & ANALYSIS
Seeing the forest for the trees: Why a lawyers’ group published Hong Kong’s first Rule of Law Report
By Jason Y. Ng, Progressive Lawyers Group A lot can happen in a single year. A foreign journalist was expelled for hosting a lunch talk. A civil servant lost a symbolically significant legal battle for equal treatment of his same-sex partner. Trials began for leaders of the Occupy Movement for crimes that nobody knew existed. […]
Pledging allegiance: How Beijing purged an entire generation of political talent from the legislature
These cases seem like they’ve been going on forever and there may be one more round to go. But the oath-taking saga is nearing its end with the appeal court ruling on February 15, against Leung Kwok-hung, otherwise known simply as “Long Hair.” This is in recognition of his trademark long flowing tresses, which he […]
FEATURES
Interview: Can ousted lawmaker Lau Siu-lai win back her seat in a time of ‘absurd’ politics?
Lau Siu-lai had just turned 40 when she won her first ever election. A university lecturer, she went onto the streets during the Umbrella Movement to teach politics and public policy – and she emerged from it a rising self-determination advocate who, along with other post-occupy darlings, went on to win a seat at the […]
From electoral triumph to prison: ex-aide of ousted lawmaker Yau Wai-ching says movement tried to go too far, too fast
To Terry Yeung, the 25-year-old former assistant of disqualified lawmaker Yau Wai-ching, if their party did not commit that mistake in 2016, their lives could have turned out completely different. In October of that year, Youngspiration’s Yau and Baggio Leung took their oaths of office as lawmakers in controversial ways – which some considered derogatory to […]
Hong Kong photographer sets out to capture city’s ‘funeral portrait’ and localists’ fight for survival
Hanging on the wood-panelled walls of Art and Culture Outreach – where the afternoon sun has illuminated the bookstore and event space – are grainy photographs depicting a series of ominous scenes: a police officer pointing a gun in the dark of the night, a sea of helmets and shields, and localist Edward Leung’s solemn […]
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