Hong Kong’s Largest Pro-Democracy Labor Union Disbands Under ‘Political Uncertainty’

Hong Kong’s Largest Pro-Democracy Labor Union Disbands Under ‘Political Uncertainty’
An exhibition of the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions in Hong Kong on Sept. 25, 2021. Peter PARKS/AFP
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Hong Kong saw its largest pro-democracy trade union broken up on Oct. 3 under a deepened security law, despite the pro-Beijing government denying that it was clamping down on civil society.

The city has seen about 50 independent groups dissolved in 2021 alone.

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