Hong Kong separtist lawmakers lose appeal, remain barred from legislature

Two separatist lawmakers blocked from taking the Hong Kong legislature's oath of office because they insisted on changing it lost an appeal Tuesday and remained blocked from joining the body.


A Hong Kong appeals court upheld a previous decision to bar Yau Wai-ching and Sixtus Leung from joining the city's Legislature, seeming to affirm China's right to interpret the Basic Law of Hong Kong's mini-constitution and bar them both from office.

Although Hong Kong has the right to self-rule through at least 2024, as stipulated in Britain's return of the city-state to China, but whether Hong Kong should remain independent or eventually join China is controversial there.
 [upi.com]
30/11/16
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