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Yau Wai-Ching posted a photo of the note, which addressed her as a “hooker” and an “anti-Communist member”, on Facebook on Friday. Photo: Facebook

Disqualified Hong Kong lawmaker Yau Wai-ching gets threatening note, blade similar to that received by Baggio Leung

Her Facebook post did not specify what actions she would take, but merely pointed out sender mixed up Chinese characters in letter

Disqualified localist lawmaker Yau Wai-ching received a threatening letter addressing her as a “hooker” along with a blade from the “Old Red Army” – just a day after her fellow Youngspiration member Sixtus Baggio Leung Chung-hang got a similar note.

Yau posted a photo of the note to her Facebook page on Friday evening. The note called her an “anti-Communist member” and a “hooker”.

“Must kill you. Anyone anti-Communist must die,” the note read.

“Must die. You must call the police,” said the note, which signed off as the “Old Red Army, Underground Party”.

The style and handwriting of the note, which was written in Chinese on a piece of music paper,were similar to the one sent to Leung.

Yau did not express how she felt about the threatening letter or detail the actions she was going to take. She quoted only the definitions of “kill” and “column” by Shuowen, an early 2nd-century Chinese dictionary from the Han Dynasty, to poke fun at the sender for mixing up the Chinese characters of “kill” and “column” in the note.

The letter was sent to the Legislative Council and was later passed to Yau as she was barred from the office.

This came a day after Leung revealed on Facebook that he received a threatening note in the mail with a blade from a “Red Army Fighter” on Wednesday.

The note, which also addressed Leung as an “anti-Communist member”, read: “Ask your dad to cook you a good meal. Your days are numbered.

“Anyone anti-Communist must be killed. Must die.”

Leung expressed shock over the note but said he would not report the case to police.

The Youngspiration duo were disqualified from Legco last month over their problematic oath-taking.

In their oaths, they pledged allegiance to the “Hong Kong nation” and used an insulting term for China.

Legco president Andrew Leung Kwan-yuen has demanded that the pair repay the salaries and costs they claimed in advance, totalling HK$930,000 each, by December 19.

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