Protest In Hong Kong Over Government's Decision To Postpone Elections, 290 People Arrested By Police -

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Digital Desk, Hong Kong. About 290 people protesting the government’s decision to postpone elections in Hong Kong were arrested by police on Sunday. The elections (Elections for Hong Kong’s legislature) were to be held on Sunday, but Chief Executive Officer Carrie Lam decided to postpone the election for a year on July 31. Lam had described the growing cases of coronavirus as the reason for avoiding the election, but critics said lam feared that the opposition would get more seats if elections were held at the stipulated time.

289 people have been arrested, police said. Most of the arrests have been made for the election demonstrations. The police department said on its Facebook page that a woman has been arrested on charges of shouting pro-independence slogans. It says that such slogans are illegal under the new National Security Act. Let us say that the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of China unanimously passed the National Security Law for Hong Kong in May. The passage of this law has curtailed Hong Kong’s rights, autonomy. The maximum punishment in jail in this law is life imprisonment. Analysts say Hong Kong’s independence in the name of national security has now ended with the national security law.

Police have arrested at least 90 people in Hong Kong during protests over the government's decision to postpone elections.

Thousands of police are patrolling the streets and officers have fired rounds of pepper balls in one neighbourhood.

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China and its puppet chief executive government have now got the right to define a threat to sedition and national security. On the pretext of this law, democracy supporters and those seeking free Hong Kong are now being targeted. The knowledgeable are telling it the last nail in the coffin of Hong Kong’s democracy hopes. Several people who were performing in less than 24 hours after the enactment of the National Security Law were also arrested.

The Chinese government wants to take over Hong Kong

In 1984, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and China’s chief Zhao Xiang signed the Seno British Joint Declaration before Hong Kong’s 99-year lease ended in 1997. Under this declaration, the two countries agreed that China would give Hong Kong some political and social autonomy under the policy of ‘ one country-two arrangement ‘ for 50 years. Thereafter, China granted Hong Kong the status of a special administrative region.

Now Hong Kong had a mini-constitution. There were civil rights like freedom of expression. However, the new system was also hanging a sword of 50 years on the people of Hong Kong after which they were to be stripped of the rights of autonomy given to them. The term of 50 years is to be completed in 2047, but the Communist Government of China is not willing to wait for even 50 years. He wants to take Hong Kong into custody from now on. That is why he has brought national security law.