'Referendum' Delayed Due To Storm: Student Leader

One of the key organisers of the so-called "referendum" on a general strike plan said on Friday that they are postponing the voting to June 20 as a tropical storm may be headed towards Hong Kong this weekend.

A students’ association and an alliance of trade unions had last week announced a plan to hold a poll among people of different sectors to decide if there should be a general strike against the new security law that Beijing is going to impose on the city.

The plan was to hold what they call a “referendum” on Sunday.

But Isaac Cheng from the Secondary Schools Student Action Platform said the polling event will take place on June 20 instead.

Cheng, speaking behalf of the organisers, said that the referendum will not be cancelled and they won't back down despite the central and Hong Kong governments' criticism over this exercise.

SAR officials earlier warned that any civil servants who took part in a strike would be investigated if they were suspected of breaching the Civil Service Code.