Four major pro-democracy figures — Joshua Wong, Agnes Chow, Nathan Law, and Jeffrey Ngo — resigned as leaders of the Demosisto organization within hours.Other Hong Kongers are deleting posts and pictures from social media that could associate them with past protests. Activists in Hong Kong are hurrying to erase criticism of China from social media and disbanding their organizations after Beijing imposed a sweeping new national security law on the region.
"Separatism, subversion, terrorism and foreign interference" are now banned, and punishable with a maximum of life in prison, according to China's summary of the law. Its full contents are not yet public., causing Hong Kongers to worry about coming retribution. In the aftermath of the vote for senior protest figures — Joshua Wong, Agnes Chow, Nathan Law, and Jeffrey Ngo — stepped down from Demosisto, the activist group that has spearheaded anti-China demonstrations in Hong Kong since 2016.Anthony Kwan/Getty Images
So what? They admited that they were destroying national security?
Respect for China has reached an all time low. After bungling the Covid 19 infection by cover up & allowing it to infect world, no one trusts them & regards their govt as third world managers. Now this with Hong Kong 👎
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