Former pan-democratic legislators Alvin Yeung, Kwok Ka Ki, Kenneth Leung and Dennis Kwok speaking to the media in Hong Kong, on Nov 11, 2020. - Reuters
HONG KONG, Nov 12 (AP): Hong Kong’s pro-democracy lawmakers have announced they would resign en masse after four of them were ousted from the semiautonomous Chinese territory's Legislature in a move one legislator said could sound the "death knell” for democracy there.
The resignation of the 15 remaining pro-democracy lawmakers will ratchet up tensions over the future of Hong Kong, a former British colony that has long been a regional financial hub and bastion of Western-style civil liberties but over which China's government has increasingly tightened its control. A new national security law imposed by Beijing this year has alarmed the international community.
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