At the League of Social Democrats Office League, Chinese characters for freedom are spelled with creation claims.
Party members take turns talking to a microphone connected to a loudspeaker. They stood in front of a flag to read “ashes than dust”, written in Chinese. Earned nearly 20 years ago, the party was known as the last protest group in Hong Kong.
“The red lines are now everywhere,” Chan Ying, the party seat, tells the BBC.
“Our decision to exclude because we face a lot of pressure.”
He added that all of Hong Kong became politically, and he was not in a position in detail to clarify the reasons.
The party is the third major opposition party to separate this year in Hong Kong. The group known for street protests says this decision was made after “careful consultation” and avoiding “results” for its members.
The announcement to separate comes the days preceding the fifth anniversary of the law imposed on National Security. The party said it could not be explained at the time of closing it, but said it was facing “severe pressure.”
“Over these 19 years, we have endured hardships of internal disputes and the near-total imprisonment of our leadership, while witnessing the erosion of civil society, the fading of grassroots voices, the omnipresence of red lines, and the draconian suppression of dissent.
The authorities said National Security Law is required to restore the order after a year of frequent violent protests in 2019.
In June, a Chinese official claimed that enemy forces were still fighting in the city.
“We obviously see that anti-china and Hong Kong elements are still violent and changes different forms of soft immunity,” Baolon said in a language.
National Security Law criminal cases such as subversions. In 2024 Hong Kong passed a domestic national security law known as Article 23, criminal crimes such as revolt and betrayal. Today most political opposition to Hong Kong has fled into the territory or detention.
“I don’t think it’s safe to run to a political party. I think political rights are almost completely in Hong Kong,” Vice-chairman Dickson Chau told BBC.
On 12 June, three members were fined by the Court of the magistrate in a magistrate court for hanging a flag of a street booth while collecting money from public without consent.
Critics say that opposition groups face political persecution. Chau says that the bank accounts at the party were closed in 2023. For the past five years, six Party members were imprisoned.
“A place with no significant political party, then people are easy to forget how strong they are if they are with a single way to join an aggregate,” says Chau.
“If I couldn’t do anything why I was here in Hong Kong?”.
He said though he was not politically active, he was afraid he could still find his own police target and forced to leave the authorities in Hong.
“The future is very difficult as a citizen. If you want to use your right as a citizen it is very difficult. Not only for political or active people,” as ordinary people.
“It’s a dilemma I didn’t expect to face Hong Kong for just one activist,” he added.
