Five Hong Kong MPs resigned today to try to press Beijing into allowing direct elections, in what some consider a desperate attempt to revive the campaign for democracy in the special administrative region.
Amid victory signs, the MPs from the opposition League of Social Democrats and Civic party held up their resignation letters for photographers before handing the documents to the secretary of Hong Kong’s legislative council.
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