Last weekend, the Hong Kong police arrested 15 more veterans of the uphill battle to preserve the freedoms that make the city autonomous.
Those detained included the revered legal luminaries Margaret Ng, 72 years old, the crusading publisher Jimmy Lai, who is 71 and Martin Lee, 81 - Lee is a Hong Kong politician and the founding chairman of the United Democrats of Hong Kong and its successor, the Democratic Party, Hong Kong's flagship pro-democracy party.
Hong Kong is a special autonomous administrative region of China, located to the east of the Pearl River estuary on the south coast of China.
What makes these arrests disturbing, apart that in nearly forty years of advocating for democracy in Hong Kong Martin Lee had never been arrested, is that notwithstanding Hong Kong's autonomy to govern itself, Beijing's Communist officials are clearly calling the city's political shots.
The Hong Kong protests had served as a reminder of the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy manifestations thirty years ago when a million Chinese students had both captivated and given the entire world the impression that communism in China was about to fall.
For the Hong Kong protesters, the United States came to the aid of democracy.
The inspiration for this was President Donald Trump's signing into law the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act, which provides for regular reports monitoring the status of the rights and freedoms that China under treaty promised to Hong Kong, and penalties if these are found to be violated.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/04/the_struggle_for_democracy_in_hong_kong_continues.html
Those detained included the revered legal luminaries Margaret Ng, 72 years old, the crusading publisher Jimmy Lai, who is 71 and Martin Lee, 81 - Lee is a Hong Kong politician and the founding chairman of the United Democrats of Hong Kong and its successor, the Democratic Party, Hong Kong's flagship pro-democracy party.
Hong Kong is a special autonomous administrative region of China, located to the east of the Pearl River estuary on the south coast of China.
What makes these arrests disturbing, apart that in nearly forty years of advocating for democracy in Hong Kong Martin Lee had never been arrested, is that notwithstanding Hong Kong's autonomy to govern itself, Beijing's Communist officials are clearly calling the city's political shots.
The Hong Kong protests had served as a reminder of the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy manifestations thirty years ago when a million Chinese students had both captivated and given the entire world the impression that communism in China was about to fall.
For the Hong Kong protesters, the United States came to the aid of democracy.
The inspiration for this was President Donald Trump's signing into law the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act, which provides for regular reports monitoring the status of the rights and freedoms that China under treaty promised to Hong Kong, and penalties if these are found to be violated.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/04/the_struggle_for_democracy_in_hong_kong_continues.html
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