Hong Kong banned 12 pro-democracy activists from Election

The government of Hong Kong barred 12 pro-democracy activists as Joshua Wong running of the September elections and said more could be disqualified for fears confirm that officials would use a new security law the possibility to refuse them to reach a majority of law. The government said he did not meet the barred candidates, the requirements that support for national last month by China Security legislation does not set included, but the names of the candidates excluded from the Legislative Council vote. Important activist Joshua Wong, the subject of a Netflix documentation, confirmed the government has declared its candidacy invalid. “There is no question of a political censorship, restriction of freedom of speech or of withdrawal to be justice for the elections, as part of some members of the community presumably,” the government said in a statement Thursday. The move was announced hours after Hong Kong police arrested four student activists through online comments said violated the new national security law sweeping over China’s cities at the end of last month imposed. They ‘were the first time authorities in the financial center are the measures used to limit speech on the Internet. The opposition in Hong Kong called for the momentum of his victory to ride the last vote of the District Council a majority in November for the election of the Legislative Council scheduled for September. But the law on the safety approval has fueled fears in recent weeks that the government block candidates seeking to criticizing the local authorities and their supporters in Beijing. The government statement listed what it called the behavior or actions, of which the candidates real reality “is not the mini-constitution of the city, the Basic Law. These actions” objection in principle the adoption of the Law on national security express “it was also a foreign government requests the Hong Kong policy, and expresses its intention to” indiscriminately “proposals of the vote on the government to intervene – these are things many opposition candidates have done in recent months. About 56% of Hong Kong residents are against the law, against 34% who support them, published according to a Reuters / Hong Kong Public Opinion poll Research Institute before the entry into force of the law.
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