On October 1, the day the Chinese Communist regime celebrated its 71st anniversary, a number of Hong Kongers staged a protest outside the Chinese Embassy in the United Kingdom, during which they burned Chinese flags and displayed banners proclaiming Hong Kong’s independence.
More than a dozen Hong Kong people dressed in black and wearing masks rallied in front of the Chinese Embassy in London on Thursday, chanting in Cantonese and English the slogan, “Glory to Hong Kong, Time for Revolution,” and burning the Chinese flag in public. Afterwards, they placed the Hong Kong independence flag and a damaged Chinese flag on the iron fence at the embassy’s main gate, and posted slogans such as “Heaven Destroy the CCP, National Day of Mourning.
Hong Kong media reported that the protest lasted more than ten minutes. The protesters dispersed peacefully after cleaning up the dust left on the ground by the flag burning.
The Chinese Embassy in the United Kingdom issued a statement condemning the incident. The statement said that the Hong Kong independence mob openly burned the Chinese flag in front of the embassy, brazenly rammed into and damaged the main gate of the embassy, and openly posted Hong Kong independence slogans, which is a serious violation of the national flag law and Hong Kong’s national security law.
According to the statement, the Chinese side has called the police and made serious representations to the British police and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Many people in Hong Kong spent the first “eleventh day” of the Hong Kong version of the National Security Law with anxiety, fear, anger and frustration. Large demonstrations and rallies that had been held on this day in previous years were banned by the authorities. Police guarded the main streets and neighborhoods where large numbers of demonstrators have gathered in previous years, as well as in front of government offices.
Mandi, a 52-year-old woman, told Reuters, “People were not in the mood to celebrate. The government is using national security laws and the epidemic to suppress our hearts.”
Human rights activists in the U.S., U.K., Turkey and India responded to the International Day of Action’s call for a boycott of the Chinese Communist regime by staging various protests and calling on governments to be more resolute in their opposition to the Communist Party and to impose targeted sanctions on Chinese officials for human rights abuses.
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