Hong Kong businessman, Lew Mon-hung “Dream Bear”, a former member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), and former ally of Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, was on Feb 29, 2016 sentenced to 18 months in prison for perverting the course of justice.
Leung Chai-yan, the daughter of Hong Kong leader Leung Chun-ying, says her mother abused her on social media, an allegation the Chief Executive denies.
As the Hong Kong government continues to clear democracy protesters from the streets, drawing the world’s attention to the Umbrella Movement, Beijing faces the problem of how to handle the anger in Hong Kong over the denial of universal suffrage.
Hundreds of pro-democracy protesters faced off with Hong Kong police late Sunday, stepping up their movement for genuine democratic reforms after being camped out on the city’s streets for more than two months.
The Chinese regime has been trying to suppress Hong Kong’s student-led pro-democracy movement using many of the same scare tactics the regime has always used to control mainland Chinese citizens.
The clearing of the second-largest protest site held by pro-democracy demonstrators in Hong Kong continued Wednesday morning in Hong Kong, with police rapidly making arrests, including two of the most prominent student leaders.
Hong Kong authorities cleared street barricades from a pro-democracy protest camp in the volatile Mong Kok district for a second day Wednesday after a night of clashes in which police arrested 116 people.
The British never gave Hong Kong democracy when it was a colony so why are the students of the Umbrella Movement complaining that the Chinese Communist Party hasn’t!
Chinese Communist Party chief Xi Jinping called Hong Kong’s democracy protests illegal, and cautioned foreign governments from “interfering,” while calling for the maintenance of public safety.
Hong Kong’s old school democracy activists have been surprised by the energy, scale, and longevity of the student-led umbrella movement—and have tried to figure out its implications for their own roles.
The de facto leadership, or what passes for it, of the occupy movement here withdrew plans to hold a ballot on the future of the movement on Sunday, the groups’ leaders saying that they had not consulted protesters widely enough, bowing in apology for the flap at a press conference.
The Jiang Zemin faction of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) appears to be trying to create so much trouble in Hong Kong that Party leader Xi Jinping will be forced to repeat the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre.