2020 Hong Kong Legislative Council candidates' disqualification controversy

In the subsequently postponed 2020 Hong Kong Legislative Council election, 12 opposition candidates were disqualified by the returning officers from running in the election, including four incumbent legislators, Alvin Yeung, Kwok Ka-ki, Dennis Kwok and Kenneth Leung, as well as activists Joshua Wong, Ventus Lau, Gwyneth Ho and Cheng Kam-mun and incumbent District Councillors Lester Shum, Tiffany Yuen, Fergus Leung and Cheng Tat-hung.[1]

  1. ^ "Hong Kong bars 12 opposition candidates from election". BBC. 30 July 2020. Archived from the original on 1 September 2020. Retrieved 31 July 2020.