A controversial youth organisation promoting nationalism in Hong Kong has denied having political links, with one member saying its appearance on a Communist Party website was a typographical errors.
The National's Young Vanguard, which made headlines recently after one of its teacher members publicly scolded a student for opposing national education, said it was an independent group not subsidised by the Hong Kong or central governments.
However, an online post that went viral yesterday pointed out a webpage run by authorities in Luohu, Shenzhen, which said the Young Vanguard was under the Communist Party.
The webpage quoted an unnamed student's nationalistic remarks, including that the group could turn a 'Hong Kong person into a Chinese person'.
The group's adviser, Liu Cheung-hin, said the website descriptions could have been due to typos.
On Sunday, television footage showed group vice-chairwoman Eva Yu Yee-wah berating 15-year-old Joshua Wong Chi-fung, a convenor of Scholarism, a student group that opposes making national education a compulsory subject.