“The Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China (HKASPDMC), despite being named a politically subversive organization recently, stressed today that HKASPDMC adheres to the “Five-point Agenda” and will continue to hold the June Fourth commemoration next year, which will last for 30 years, and has already reserved a venue in Victoria Park.
According to a news report quoted by the Central News Agency today, the Alliance, which has been accused of being a politically subversive organization, will continue to hold the June Fourth Gala next year. The Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China (HKAPMC) has set up a stall in Causeway Bay on June 22 to invite citizens to write Christmas cards to the mainland rights activists and the 12 Hong Kong people arrested for illegal immigration. In an interview with the media at the event, Mr. Lee Cheuk-yan made the above remarks.
In response to a recent comment by Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Council member Tian Feilong that the Alliance is a politically subversive organization and a color revolutionary organization based in Hong Kong that colludes with outside forces and violates the National Security Law and Hong Kong laws, Lee Cheuk-yan stressed that the Alliance adheres to the “five major principles” and insists on striving for democracy and innocence, and will never give up or retreat. In the past 30 years, the HKASPDMC has been carrying out its work in a peaceful way without any problems, and if it becomes a problem now, “it is not the HKASPDMC that will change, but Hong Kong. The Alliance will continue to hold rallies on June 4 next year, and has already reserved a space in Victoria Park, and will not change the direction of the Alliance’s work because of the implementation of the National Security Law in Hong Kong. In response to Tian Feilong’s accusation that the organization of the online “Human Rights Museum of June Fourth Memory” is an attempt to seize the right to speak about history, Lee Cheuk-yan stressed that the Alliance should “confront lies with truth.
According to the Central News Agency, the Alliance, which was founded in 1989 to support the June Fourth Movement, has “five agendas”: releasing pro-democracy activists, vindicating the 1989 pro-democracy movement, pursuing responsibility for the massacre, ending one-party dictatorship, and building a democratic China. On June 4 every year, the Alliance organizes a June 4 candlelight vigil at Victoria Park on Hong Kong Island, but this year the Hong Kong government banned the vigil, citing the epidemic prevention and restriction order. However, a number of pro-democracy activists, including Lee Cheuk-yan and Next Media founder Chi-Ying Lai, were later charged with illegal assembly because they still held the event on June 4.
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