Key Hong Kong democrat to quit
Hong Kong’s best-known democracy advocate said he would end his political career but keep pressing for greater rights.
Martin Lee, 69, said he would not run for reelection in the local legislature in September. However, he said he would “continue pushing for democracy in Hong Kong until we have democracy.”
Lee’s campaign for direct elections in Hong Kong has made him a champion of human rights to many in the West and a reviled troublemaker to China. He was fired from a panel drafting Hong Kong’s constitution after backing the 1989 pro-democracy protests in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.
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