Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong quits democracy group Demosisto
30 June, 2020
Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong said on Tuesday (Jun 30) he is stepping down as leader of his democracy group Demosisto, only hours after regional media reported that Beijing had passed countrywide security legislation for the town.
Wong has said he'd be a "prime aim for" of Beijing's national protection rules, which critics fear would crush freedoms in the previous British colony.
Chinese and Hong Kong authorities have said regulations is necessary to tackle separatism, subversion, terrorism and collusion with international forces following anti-authorities protests that escalated in June last year.
Wong has rallied support for Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement overseas, specifically in america, drawing the wrath of Beijing, which says he's a "black palm" of foreign forces.
"If my voice will never be heard soon, I am hoping that the international community will continue steadily to speak up for Hong Kong and step up concrete efforts to guard our last bit of freedom," Wong said on his Twitter feed.
Demosisto members Nathan Rules and Agnes Chow likewise said they were stepping down from the group.
"The struggle of Hong Kong people will not stop, it'll sole continue with a far more determined attitude," Law said in a Facebook post.
The South China Morning hours Post newspaper, quoting an unidentified supply, said China's official media firm Xinhua would publish information on the law down the road Tuesday and Hong Kong officials would gather in the office of Beijing's top representative in the town later for a gathering on the legislation.
The draft laws has alarmed some foreign governments and Hong Kong's democracy activists.
They are worried that Beijing is eroding the high amount of autonomy granted to the former British colony when it had been returned to Chinese rule in 1997.
China says the national reliability law will concentrate on only a small group of troublemakers and persons who follow the legislation haven't any reason to worry.
Source: www.channelnewsasia.com
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