Hong Kong’s last functioning pro-democracy party disbands

TEARS ROLLED down Chan Po-ying’s face at the disbandment of the League of Social Democrats (LSD), the last functioning pro-democracy party in Hong Kong, on June 29th. Ms Chan, the party’s leader, spoke of the impossibility of operating amid “the omnipresence of red lines and the draconian suppression of dissent”.

The Economist

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