Hong Kong’s opposition League of Social Democrats on Sunday cited “immense political strain” and the “security” of its members in folding the social gathering months earlier than its twentieth anniversary.
“Dealing with immense political strain, and having thought-about all elements, particularly the protection of our members and people who stroll with us, we are able to solely sadly announce our dissolution,” social gathering chairwoman Chan Po-ying stated.
Requested to specify the “political strain” it confronted, Chan stated she might say nothing past a “disbandment assertion” the social gathering had ready.
A celebration press convention at a Chai Wan industrial constructing was attended by Chan and 6 members, together with Figo Chan Ho-wun, Jimmy Sham Tsz-kit, Raphael Wong Ho-ming and Tsang Kin-shing.
There was a heavy police presence outdoors the venue, whereas dozens of media shops packed the small room.
Studying the assertion, titled “Somewhat be ashes than mud”, Chan stated the social gathering, established 19 years in the past, had lately skilled a “disaster the place virtually all of its management confronted imprisonment as a result of civil disobedience”.
