The League of Social Democrats (LSD), founded in 2006, championed democratisation and grassroots issues in Hong Kong’s legislature and on the streets.
“In the face of immense political pressure and after careful deliberation -- particularly with regard to the consequences for our members and comrades -- we have made the difficult decision to disband,“ LSD said in a statement.
Asked if the pressure had come from Beijing’s middlemen, Chan said she could not disclose details.
Its lawmakers were known for their colourful heckling and symbolic protests in legislative sessions, which included lobbing bananas and fish sandwiches at the city’s leadership.
Fernando Cheung, spokesperson for Amnesty International Hong Kong Overseas, said LSD’s dissolution “further reveals the near purging of Hong Kong’s pan-democratic political parties and civil society organisations”.
One of LSD’s founding members, “Long Hair” Leung Kwok-hung, remains behind bars after being found guilty of subversion last year, as part of Hong Kong’s largest national security trial.
In recent years, LSD had limited its public activities to a Sunday street booth in a shopping district where a handful of activists handed out flyers while filmed by police.
Chan said that Hong Kong is witnessing a “domino effect” and that her group will not be the last to fold, urging people “on the one hand to survive, and on the other hand to try to exercise our rights as citizens”.
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