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Hong Kong’s pro-democracy lawmakers to resign en masse

By Thomas A. Smith

HONG KONG (AP) Hong Kong s pro-democracy lawmakers announced Wednesday they would resign en masse after four of them were ousted from the semiautonomous Chinese territory s Legislature in a move one legislator said could sound the death knell for democracy there.

The resignation of the 15 remaining pro-democracy lawmakers will ratchet up tensions over the future of Hong Kong, a former British colony that has long been a regional financial hub and bastion of Western-style civil liberties but over which China s government has increasingly tightened its control. A new national security law imposed by Beijing this year has alarmed the international community.

via apnews.com