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.