It’s all there in one small sentence.
This in the same fortnight amnesty left town and the Uni of HK memorial gets disappeared.. oh and that lawyer in our previous story ….
HKFP reports
One of the liquidators for the now-disbanded group behind the city’s annual 1989 Tiananmen Massacre vigils has questioned an executive order from Chief Executive Carrie Lam which has struck the group from the companies registry. He called the move “premature and unnecessary.”
Lam made the order in consultation with the executive council on Tuesday, striking the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China from the city’s companies registry.
The government’s announcement alleged that the Alliance’s five operational goals, including seeking to “end one-party dictatorship,” amounted to “subverting state power.”
“The [Chief Executive-in-Council] agreed with the views of the Commissioner of Police and the Secretary for Security that the operation of the Alliance which seeks to end the leadership of the CPC amounts to seeking to overthrow the basic system of the PRC established by the Constitution with a view to subverting the state power of the PRC, which would inevitably threaten or undermine the PRC’s ability to safeguard national security and to maintain public safety and public order,” a statement read, in reference to the People’s Republic of China.
Hong Kong’s Companies Ordinance provides the chief executive with the power to strike a registered society from the companies registry if they are satisfied it is necessary in the interests of national security or public safety, or if it had a connection with an international or Taiwanese organisation.
