Occupy Central
Occupy Central is a civil disobedience movement which began in Hong Kong on September 28, 2014. It calls on thousands of protesters to block roads and paralyse Hong Kong's financial district if the Beijing and Hong Kong governments do not agree to implement universal suffrage for the chief executive election in 2017 and the Legislative Council elections in 2020 according to "international standards." The movement was initiated by Benny Tai Yiu-ting (戴耀廷), an associate professor of law at the University of Hong Kong, in January 2013.
Umbrella Movement
The Umbrella Movement (Chinese: 雨傘運動; pinyin: yǔsǎn yùndòng) is a loose political movement that was created spontaneously during the Hong Kong protests of 2014. Its name derives from the recognition of the umbrella as a symbol of defiance and resistance against the Hong Kong government, and the united grass-roots objection to the decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPCSC) of 31 August.
The movement consists of individuals numbering in the tens of thousands who participated in the protests that began on 28 September 2014, although Scholarism, the Hong Kong Federation of Students, Occupy Central with Love and Peace, groups are principally driving the demands for the rescission of the NPCSC decision.
The movement consists of individuals numbering in the tens of thousands who participated in the protests that began on 28 September 2014, although Scholarism, the Hong Kong Federation of Students, Occupy Central with Love and Peace, groups are principally driving the demands for the rescission of the NPCSC decision.
POST OCCUPY CENTRAL - DAY 110:
Full coverage of the day’s events on 04-04
Leong sees ulterior motives in CY’s comments on nominations
Civic Party leader Alan Leong Kah-kit has accused the Chief Executive, Leung Chun-ying, of deliberately muddying the waters over whether civil nomination was mentioned during the drafting of the Basic Law.
Yesterday, Leung said the idea of civil nomination had never been mooted, before he later appeared to backtrack, saying it was not a feature of some of the proposals on how to elect the chief executive.
After initially sticking to version, he retracted his original statement after veteran democrat Martin Lee said he had documents showing Leung was wrong.
Alan Leong said he did not think it was simply an honest mistake on Leung's part.
“I think the whole saga yesterday has been just part of the plot that I have always thought that the Central People's Government has been pursuing, which is to retract from not only the Basic Law, but also the promise by the NPCSC in 2007, for Hong Kong people to have universal suffrage in 2017," Leong said.
“What is most immoral about this plot is that they want the pan-democrats to veto it [the political reform package] but at the same time, to bear the political consequences, which in their language was to stand in the way to real democracy."
Meanwhile, Basic Law Committee member, Maria Tam, said Leung did not actually make a mistake in his comments on civil nomination, and his new statement was just to clarify things.
She also said the proposal that chief executive hopefuls could be nominated as candidates by 50 members of the public wasn't intended to constitute civil nomination. The candidates would then have faced a 600-member election committee.
The Basic Law Drafting Committee member who put forward the suggestion has since died.
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