Anti-China lawmakers disqualified from Hong Kong parliament

True patriots being persecuted by the totalitarian CCP dictatorship.

WOW! That took some real guts! Hats off to you both Mr. Leung and Ms Yau.

Confucius say: One who makes fun of Oath, get no office.

Hope the people of HK keep up the good fight. At least show the CCP what they're completely full of...

It's interesting, and most everyone applauds liberty and loyalty to liberty (or lots of people, anyway), but also difficult to say the disqualifications were wrong.

How many nations don't have this kind of loyalty oath for their legislators?

Is it that USA, UK, Japan etc., don't have these oaths?

Or that no legislators ever mangled them so that the cases never came up?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Legislative_Council_oath-taking_controversy

... The two first claimed that "As a member of the Legislative Council, I shall pay earnest efforts in keeping guard over the interests of the Hong Kong nation," displayed a "Hong Kong is not China" banner, inserted their own words into the oaths and mispronounced "People’s Republic of China" as "people’s re-" ... (F) ... "ing of Chee-na".

On 7 November 2016, the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) interpreted the Article 104 of the Basic Law of Hong Kong to "clarify" the provision of the legislators to swear allegiance to Hong Kong as part of China when they take office. As a consequence, the court disqualified the two legislators on 15 November. ...

To Hell with "Big Red"!- keep the pressure on them!