Alex Chow and Lester Shum spoke on Hong Kong political reform at the Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy, an international conference organised by a group of NGOs ahead of the UN Human Rights Council’s annual session yesterday.
Chow and Shum are the number-one and number-two leaders of the Hong Kong Federation of Students and played a major role in leading last year’s pro-democracy protests.
(Their name plates were accidentally switched in the above video. Oops.)
“We will talk about the right to participate in public affairs and politics, and we’ll also touch on the state obligations from the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration,” Chow told the Young Post before the summit.
“It is important to let the outside world know what is happening in Hong Kong.”
“We have no right to withdraw hope,” said Shum during the summit. “We have no space to retreat. We must stay hopeful.”
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