The pride parade was forced to become just a static rally after police on Thursday rejected LGBT groups’ application for a march, amid Hong Kong’s intensifying civil unrest.
Yeo Wai-wai, director of the Hong Kong Pride Parade’s organising committee, accused police of informing them at the last minute, rather than the usual month in advance, leaving organisers with little time to liaise with guests, many of them distinguished diplomats. “The police have been clamping down on freedom,” said Yeo, also a member of the Civil Human Rights Front, which organised peaceful protests a few months ago to oppose the now-withdrawn extradition bill in June, drawing crowds estimated at more than a million.
The pride parade was forced to become just a static rally after police on Thursday rejected LGBT groups’ application for a march, amid Hong Kong’s intensifying civil unrest.
Yeo Wai-wai, director of the Hong Kong Pride Parade’s organising committee, accused police of informing them at the last minute, rather than the usual month in advance, leaving organisers with little time to liaise with guests, many of them distinguished diplomats. “The police have been clamping down on freedom,” said Yeo, also a member of the Civil Human Rights Front, which organised peaceful protests a few months ago to oppose the now-withdrawn extradition bill in June, drawing crowds estimated at more than a million.
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