HK Alliance Struck Off The Companies Register

The Chief Executive in Council (CE-in-C) on Tuesday ordered that the Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China be struck off the Companies Register.

It said the group had always promoted and maintained the goal of "ending one-party dictatorship", which is to say the leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC), and this amounted to subversion.

"The CE-in-C agreed with the views of the commissioner of police and the secretary for security that the operation of the alliance which seeks to end the leadership of the CPC amounts to seeking to overthrow the basic system of the PRC established by the constitution with a view to subverting the state power of the PRC, which would inevitably threaten or undermine the PRC’s ability to safeguard national security and to maintain public safety and public order," a statement said.

The CE-in-C said it was satisfied that had the alliance been a society covered by the Societies Ordinance, it would have been banned by the security secretary.

"It is necessary in the interests of national security, public safety and public order to prohibit the operation or continued operation of the alliance," the statement said.

It added that the striking-off order was made after the CE-in-C took into consideration not only the views of the police chief and security minister, but also representations submitted by the alliance and one of its directors.