H.K. lawmakers-elect appeal disqualification ruling

H.K. lawmakers-elect appeal disqualification ruling

Lawmaker-elect Yau Wai-ching appears at Hong Kong's Court of Appeal on Nov. 24, 2016, to appeal a disqualification decision made last week following Beijing's constitutional interpretation aimed at barring anti-China activists from public office. Yau and lawmaker-elect Sixtus Leung of the localist party Youngspiration were barred from the legislature after the High Court ruled against them over their failure to swear allegiance to the Basic Law. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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