In Hong Kong, the opposition League of Social Democrats announced Sunday it would disband, after its members were prosecuted and jailed under a national security law imposed by Beijing in 2020. The crackdown came after party leaders helped organize massive street protests in 2019 in support of multiparty democracy in Hong Kong. This is Chan Po-ying, chair of the League of Social Democrats.

Chan Po-ying: “Over the 19 years since our founding, we have endured hardships of internal disputes and the near-total imprisonment of our leadership, while witnessing the erosion of civil society, the fading of grassroots voices, the omnipresence of red lines and the draconian suppression of dissent. Despite such adversities, the League of Social Democrats persisted, doing what little we could, just to remain true to our founding values and beliefs.”