Core member of Hong Kong pro-democracy party Demosisto resigns after finance rules violation
Derek Lam says on Facebook that he owes the group, co-founded by activist Joshua Wong, ‘too many apologies’
Hong Kong’s youngest political party Demosisto, co-founded by student activist Joshua Wong Chi-fung, removed a core member from its standing committee on Thursday after he was found to have violated the group’s financial rules.
Derek Lam Shun-hin, 24, also resigned from the party, which approved his application to withdraw from membership. No specific reason was revealed regarding Lam’s decision to quit.
Demosisto was founded last year with Wong and disqualified lawmaker Nathan Law Kwun-chung as its leaders.
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Lam was one of the eight standing committee members of the party and viewed as a core member after Law, the chairman, and Wong, its secretary general, were jailed in August over an unlawful assembly in the lead-up to the 2014 Occupy movement.
In a short statement posted on its Facebook page on Thursday afternoon, Demosisto said Lam had violated party rules on financial matters. But the party said it did not suffer any financial losses.
“After an internal investigation, the party found Lam had violated the conduct for party members and removed Lam from his duty as a standing committee member immediately,” the statement said.
It added that Lam then applied to quit the party and the move was approved.
