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Article: Hong Kong legislative council debates "one-party dictatorship".
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- BBC Monitoring International Reports
- Article date:
- May 26, 2009
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Text of report by Hong Kong newspaper The Standard website on 26 May
The Legislative Council has set a controversial precedent by allowing the politically sensitive phrase "one-party dictatorship be ended" to be included in a motion debate on the June 4 crackdown.
Rita Fan Hsu Lai-tai rejected those words during her watch as Legco president but successor Jasper Tsang Yok-sing in a surprise move yesterday allowed the inclusion in an amendment to the ...