TWO YOUNGSPIRATION LAWMAKERS BARRED FROM LEGCO|港法院判決 取消梁頌恆.游蕙禎議員資格

On Nov. 15, two Hong Kong pro-independence lawmakers who were elected to the Legislative Council but took oaths in English and to Hong Kong, rather than China, were disqualified by a Hong Kong court from taking office. The two vowed to appeal the court's decision. Democratically elected legislators Yau Wai-ching, 25, and Baggio Leung, 30, sparked controversy when they had to take an oath to take up their positions in the Hong Kong Legislative Council. They displayed a banner declaring "Hong Kong is not China" and substituted derogatory terms for "China" while taking their oaths. The two were given a second opportunity to take the oath, but again took it in the same way and it was declared invalid. China then used the National People's Congress, to invoke a seldom-used power to rewrite Hong Kong's Basic Law. It stated that those wishing to hold public office must "sincerely and solemnly" declare allegiance to China. With this, Hong Kong's chief executive was able to launch an unprecedented legal challenge, seeking to remove the pair from office, by enforcing the regulation. Hong Kong's High Court ruled that the pair could no longer take up their places as since they had refused to bind themselves to Hong Kong's laws. ==BAGGIO "SIXTUS" LEUNG Youngspiration Party Legislator== "We have no hesitation in deciding that we will go for an appeal to the court or a final appeal, if it's where we have to go to see justice served. This judgment simply reflects the elections in Hong Kong are meaningless. And their result of which can be easily overturned by the government. About 2,000 members of Hong Kong's legal community marched last week in silence to protest against what they called a "severe blow" to the city's judicial independence. TRANSLATED BY：CLARE LEAR