Hong Kong Legco by-election candidate Lee Cheuk-yan ejected from poll briefing over anti-disqualification protest
- Disbarred candidate Lau Siu-lai was also removed from the event in Kowloon Bay after pro-democracy trio denounced government
- The three were protesting the returning officer’s decision to bar Lau from November’s by-election
A Hong Kong opposition candidate for the legislature and two of his aides were forcibly ejected on Monday from a briefing on next month’s Kowloon West by-election.
Security guards carried away Lee Cheuk-yan of the Labour Party, along with Lau Siu-lai and Mak Tak-ching, after the trio shouted slogans and unfurled a banner condemning the government. They were protesting Lau’s disqualification from the November 25 poll.
They were at an Electoral Affairs Commission briefing at the Kowloon Bay International Trade and Exhibition Centre, hosted by commission chairman Mr Justice Barnabas Fung Wah.
I was not only banned from contesting the election. Now I am deprived of the chance to ask the electoral authorities to explain why I was disqualified
Lau, speaking to the press after being ushered out, said: “The government is shameful. I was not only banned from contesting the election. Now I am deprived of the chance to ask the electoral authorities to explain why I was disqualified.”