Hong Kong Residents March for Human Rights in China on 60th Anniversary of Communist China

More than 200 Hong Kong residents marched through the citys financial district on Thursday, October 1st. It coincided with the celebrations in Beijing marking the 60th anniversary of the Communist Partys takeover of China.

With Hong Kongs semiautonomous status, residents are free to publicly memorialize those killed during the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown and the CCPs other violent campaigns. Theyre calling October 1st a (quote) national memorial day.

Denouncing the regimes human rights record, they carry signs and shout slogans [respect human rights]. Among them is pro-democracy legislator Lee Cheuk-yan.

[Lee Cheuk-yan, Legislative Council of Hong Kong]:
"After 60 years of communist rule we see a regression in human rights and we can see that the Communist Party has stepped up the effort in squeezing and suppressing human rights in China. So this today, we come and protest. It's not a day for celebration but a day for protest."

A scuffle broke out as police tried to stop a group of protesters from carrying a fake coffin—symbolizing victims of the Chinese regimes persecution—to the Central Liaison Office.

Another group of protesters began a 60-hour hunger strike to mark 60 years of oppression. Others called for the release of dissidents. The vice-chairperson of Hong Kongs Democratic Party was there, too.

[Emily Lau Wai-hing, HK Democratic Party Vice Chair]:
"If China wants to emerge as a strong, big power it should respect the human rights of its people. Just having economic development is not enough."

Having Western-style civil liberties, Hong Kong is a place where Chinese people frequently hold events that bring to light the CCPs human rights abuses and other topics that cannot be discussed in other parts of China.

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[boymankiller]

Damn those communists! Great job Hong Kong! Make your voices heard!

[krislyttle]

The audacity of these criminals who call themselves government. They think they can pull a "fast one" over the people of Hong Kong...the same tactic they had used on the poor Chinese peasants 60 years ago. Well, think again!

Hell, even ordinary Chinese are just now starting to wake up and protest against these nasties that hold power over their lives; better late than never, I suppose.

Well done Hong Kong, but I fear your struggle for freedom and justice has only just begun.

[ChinaKillsTibetans]

Falun Gong say 3292 Falun Gong practitioners have been confirmed tortured to

death by August 2009 and hundreds of thousands are still missing.

Thousands of Tibetans and Uyghurs are missing as well.

Is there a worse place to be than in communist party labour camp ?

[SeriousSam505]

the CCP bitches are just turning china into a nightmare, fucking communist bastards

[Rheaume100]

Communist China will only show the World,, the good Things on the NEWS!!!

[TheMightyGuri]

i dont understand why chinese people are so blind? chinese citizens have freedom of speech since 1982 under chinese laws!!!! article 35 tells it! the government of china just violates its own countrys laws

why does nobody see that???

STAND UP CHINA!!!!!