Facebook Twitter Pinterest Yau Wai-ching holds the ruling banning her from taking her seat in the legislative council outside the high court in Hong Kong on Tuesday. After university, Yau got a job processing applications at the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants. But rather than read the formal oath, Yau and Leung sparked outrage in Beijing by holding up banners that read “Hong Kong is not China”. “This is going to put a constraint on freedom of speech in Hong Kong,” said Ma Ngok, a politics professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. “Now political speech can get you disqualified from office … It shows that China doesn’t care about the reaction of the people in Hong Kong.”

Source: The Guardian November 15, 2016 11:09 UTC