New | Pro-democracy bankers urge Xi Jinping against Tiananmen-style crackdown on Occupy Central
Government refuses to grant permission to group allied with Occupy to start pro-democracy march in Victoria Park on October 1
Supporters of Occupy Central from the financial sector have urged President Xi Jinping not to allow a crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong like the one that brought an end to 1989’s protest camp in Tiananmen Square, Beijing.
In an open letter published in two international newspapers on Thursday ahead of the upcoming mass sit-in on Central streets, the group wrote that Hongkongers want true democracy.
“Please honour ‘one country, two systems’ as prescribed in the Basic Law,” the letter in the International New York Times and The Wall Street Journal reads.
“Don’t stage a Tiananmen crackdown in Hong Kong. The whole world is watching,” it continues.
Thousands of pro-democracy Occupy supporters are expected to gather in Central in the coming weeks to protest Beijing’s decision to rule out an open election of the chief executive in 2017.
