Fears Grow For Chinese Election Hopeful, Missing, Believed Detained
Chan Siu-po | Radio Free Asia Would-be independent candidates in forthcoming elections to district-level legislative bodies around China have expressed concern over the safety of constitutional scholar and former People’s Congress deputy Yao Lifa, who has been incommunicado since last week. Yao, who in 1998 became the first independent delegate to be elected to a […]
Hong Kong Councilor: Beijing Manipulated Election
Hai Yan | Voice of America HONG KONG — A pro-Beijing Liberal Party candidate who recently dropped out of Hong Kong’s Legislative Council election alleged Wednesday that three mainlanders had made threats that forced him to quit. Addressing a news conference in Hong Kong, Ken Chow Wing-kan, a longtime district councilor, said it was on August […]
Protests Continue in China’s Rebel Village Ahead of Leader’s Trial
Wong Lok-to | Radio Free Asia Thousands of residents of a rebel village in China’s southern province of Guangdong took to the streets on Tuesday ahead of the trial of their former leader on graft charges. Shouting “Give us back our Party Secretary! Release Party Secretary Lin!” the protesters surged onto the streets of Wukan […]
Screens go blank as Hong Kong election news censored in China
Chantal Yuen | Hong Kong Free Press According to Aljazeera news: “Official results for most constituencies show that pro-democracy candidates have won at least 27 seats – three more than required for the power to block attempts by the Hong Kong government to enact unpopular or controversial legislation.” As Hong Kong is heading to the polls in […]
Hong Kong Election Candidates Refuse to Sign Loyalty Declaration
Lam Kwok-lap | Radio Free Asia One in three candidates hoping to run in elections to Hong Kong’s legislature on Sept. 4 have refused to sign a declaration accepting Chinese rule and renouncing independence for the city, election officials said. The office handling nominations for candidacy in the Legislative Council (LegCo) poll says it 33 […]
China: Village Leader Seeks U.S. Asylum Before Elections
A candidate for election in China’s test-bed for village democracy, Zhuang Liehong, has applied for asylum in the U.S.
He is afraid that like two other village leaders, he will be arrested on trumped up charges