Disqualified Hong Kong lawmakers move out of their offices but vow to return

The government can bar us but it can’t bar voters in the by-elections, says a defiant ‘Long Hair’ Leung Kwok-hung

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Lawmakers (from left, front) Leung Kwok-hung, Nathan Law, Lau Siu-lai and Edward Yiu bid farewell to the Legislative Council. Photo: Edward Wong

Published: 8:45pm, 28 Jul 2017Updated: 5:47am, 29 Jul 2017

The four lawmakers disqualified two weeks ago for their oath-taking antics bid farewell to the Legislative Council on Friday but vowed they would be back.

Flanked by other pan-democrats and supporters, the four marched out of the building where they had worked for the past nine months, holding a banner that read “We will keep fighting”.

The pan-democrats put on a united front outside the Legislative Council. Photo: Edward Wong

“We will be back. We will prevail. Long live Hong Kong people. Long Live universal suffrage,” they chanted under the lead of “Long Hair” Leung Kwok-hung.

Leung – who was unseated by the High Court along with Lau Siu-lai, Nathan Law Kwun-chung and Edward Yiu Chung-yim on July 14 for failing to take their oaths solemnly in October – had been told by the Legco Secretariat to move out by Friday.

The four carry a banner and chant their defiance. Photo: Edward Wong

Leung said the government had disqualified them but it could not disqualify voters in the by-elections to replace them and two localist lawmakers barred last year.

Sixtus Baggio Leung Chung-hang and Yau Wai-ching were disqualified in November for insulting Beijing while taking their oaths.

Kimmy Chung

Kimmy Chung joined the Post in 2017 and reports for the Hong Kong desk on local politics and Hong Kong-mainland issues. Prior to joining the Post, she covered Hong Kong politics and social policies for more than six years for different media outlets.

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