Student leaders plan 'political protest' trip to Beijing
Trio led by Alex Chow hopes to meet Premier Li Keqiang and other officials over reform, as pan-democrat casts doubt over surrender plan
Three Federation of Students representatives will go to Beijing tomorrow to lodge a protest over the central government’s restrictive ruling on political reform.
It comes as Civic Party leader Alan Leong Kah-kit criticised a plan for the Occupy Central co-founders and their supporters to surrender to police next week.
Federation secretary general Alex Chow Yong-kang last night said the trip was a “political protest” after several people had refused to line up talks for them with leaders in Beijing.
Chow, Eason Chung Yiu-wa and Nathan Law Kwun-chung hope to meet Premier Li Keqiang, officials and delegates to the national legislature, which is behind the reform ruling.
“The central government has destroyed ‘one country, two systems’ over the past years,” Chow said. “[The trip] symbolises that Hongkongers are not afraid of Beijing’s manipulation.”
He said they were not sure if they would be allowed entry. The trip would be cancelled if police cleared protest sites in Admiralty and Mong Kok beforehand.