Wiped out: A novelty toilet paper roll with the image of Leung in a flat turned into a recreation of the main pro-democracy protest site in Hong Kong. — AFP
HONG KONG: China has wiped the smile off pro-democracy activists’ faces by seizing 7,600 rolls of toilet paper featuring Hong Kong’s pro-Beijing leader Leung Chun-ying pulling a series of ridiculous expressions.
Hong Kong’s Democratic Party said the politically charged toilet paper, along with 20,000 packets of tissues, were to be sold at a popular Chinese New Year fair opening next week before the products were seized by mainland authorities.
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