Beijing, Hong Kong Leader Threaten Opposition Camp With Security Law After 600,000 Locals Cast Ballots

Voters queue up in long lines waiting to cast their votes in primary elections in Hong Kong, on July 12, 2020. Song Bilung/The Epoch Times

Beijing and the pro-establishment Hong Kong government have claimed that the city’s pro-democracy opposition camp may have violated the communist party’s newly-implemented national security law by holding their primary polls over the weekend.

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam in a press conference on Monday accused the primary elections as “causing unfairness” to the legislative elections in September and warned people not to take part in activities that could “interfere, disrupt, [or] cause confusion” to the upcoming elections.