Barred from contesting polls, four Hong Kong lawmakers await Beijing’s decision on their time left in Legco

Four sitting Hong Kong lawmakers – the Civic Party’s Alvin Yeung Ngok-kiu, Dennis Kwok and Kwok Ka-ki, as well as Kenneth Leung of the accountancy sector – have been barred from contesting the next Legislative Council elections. Key reasons cited by the election officials who announced their disqualification on July 30 included the national security law and pan-democrats’ previous calls for foreign governments, including the United States, to sanction Beijing and Hong Kong.Hong Kong leader…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3096503/barred-contesting-polls-four-hong-kong-lawmakers-await