Canadian journalist pushes on with Hong Kong election plan despite arrest threat
said the threat of arrest announced by the Hong Kong Security Bureau on Aug. 3 had not deterred him or fellow organizers who were working “full gear” to stage the symbolic online election in late 2023 or early 2024.“Instead, I feel it is ridiculous that a government which never represents its own people now wants to bring me and other activists to justice,” said Ho in an interview conducted in Mandarin.
Hong Kong’s Security Bureau said it “severely condemns” Ho, Yuen and Leung, and police would “spare no efforts in pursuing the cases in accordance with the law in order to bring the offenders to justice.”Hong Kong’s freedom has ‘vanished,’ Taiwan says on handover anniversary Leung, who left Hong Kong on 2020, said the threat of arrest had made him more determined to make the parliament plan a reality, providing Hong Kongers around the world with a platform to be heard.Hong Kong’s Citizen News says closure triggered by Stand News collapse – Jan 3, 2022
Ho said voting would be open to anyone who had lived in Hong Kong for at least seven years, and was over 16.
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