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Hong Kong pro-democracy party gives up

Alan Leong, chairman of the Civic Party, announces the party’s decision to disband in Hong Kong on Saturday. (Photo: Reuters)

HONG KONG: One of Hong Kong’s biggest democratic parties said on Saturday it would disband after a vote by its party members, dealing another blow to the city’s already beleaguered democratic opposition under pressure from China.

In recent years, Hong Kong’s opposition has been hit by a China-imposed national security law and overhaul of the electoral system that has largely sidelined democrats from local politics.

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