PUPPET LEGISLATURE TO REPLACE HONG KONG COUNCIL.(Editorial) From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Date: December 24, 1996 | COPYRIGHT 1996 Seattle Post-Intelligencer. All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of the Dialog Corporation by Gale Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

Hong Kong is officially set to be handed over to China June 30.

But a de facto transfer of sovereignty happened Saturday in Shenzhen, a border town in southern China, as Beijing appointed a puppet legislature that will eventually replace Hong Kong's elected Legislative Council.

It is the beginning of the end of human rights and the rule of law in Hong Kong.

In effect, China is reversing the results of the watershed election of September 1995, when more than a million Hong Kong citizens faced down threats from Beijing and elected legislators who pledged to fight for ...

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