Required to Pledge Allegiance by Oath, 129 Public Servants and 535 Contractors Have Left the Government Last Year

Morning hours on the pedestrian bridge, people going to work at HK Government Headquarters complex at Tamar. Song Bi-long/The Epoch Times

Over a hundred (129 to be exact) Hong Kong civil servants and 535 non-civil servant government employees have left or resigned last year, refusing to comply with the newly introduced oath-taking declaration-signing requirement by the Hong Kong government.

The Hong Kong government requires civil servants to take an oath or sign a declaration of allegiance to the Hong Kong authority under the Chinese Communist Party. This requirement was introduced last year and had been extended to cover non-civil servant employees as well.