Residents Complain at City Hall Hoisting Communist Flag

San Francisco recently hoisted the “Five Star Red Flag” of the People’s Republic of China celebrating the date that the CCP officially seized power in China. To many that flag reawakens memories of torture and murder.
Residents Complain at City Hall Hoisting Communist Flag
Matthew Robertson
10/6/2011
Updated:
10/1/2015
<a><img class="size-medium wp-image-1796791" title="Helena Li (L) and Da Fang sit in the public hearing room at City Hall, waiting to give testimony to the Board of Supervisors. They would explain how the hanging of the red flag of communist China from City Hall startled them, because of their experience of political persecution in China. (Matthew Robertson/The Epoch Times)" src="https://www.theepochtimes.com/assets/uploads/2015/09/matthew_robertson_IMG_9783.jpg" alt="Helena Li (L) and Da Fang sit in the public hearing room at City Hall, waiting to give testimony to the Board of Supervisors. They would explain how the hanging of the red flag of communist China from City Hall startled them, because of their experience of political persecution in China. (Matthew Robertson/The Epoch Times)" width="320"/></a>
Helena Li (L) and Da Fang sit in the public hearing room at City Hall, waiting to give testimony to the Board of Supervisors. They would explain how the hanging of the red flag of communist China from City Hall startled them, because of their experience of political persecution in China. (Matthew Robertson/The Epoch Times)

Matthew Robertson is the former China news editor for The Epoch Times. He was previously a reporter for the newspaper in Washington, D.C. In 2013 he was awarded the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi award for coverage of the Chinese regime's forced organ harvesting of prisoners of conscience.
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