A number of Hongkongers in different places welcomed China's National Day with protests and demonstrations calling for an end to the tyranny enacted by the Chinese government against the people of Hong Kong.
The Chinese Communist Party's 73rd founding anniversary on Oct. 1 was met with rallies and demonstrations from Hongkongers who were protesting against the CCP, The Epoch Times reported.
The said Hongkongers organized rallies and demonstrations in Canada, Taiwan, the United Kingdom and United States. In the U.K. alone, there were such gatherings across ten cities including Birmingham, Bristol, Liverpool and London.
The demonstrations were conducted in protest of the CCP's human rights abuses against Hongkongers, Tibetans and Uyghurs.
Many groups composed of Hongkongers, Tibetans and Uyghurs organized the "Resist The CCP Day Joint London Rally," which was held 6 p.m. on Oct. 1. They initiated a joint petition urging U.K. governments to end the sister-city ties it has with China.
These groups are also calling on the public to join a campaign urging the U.K. government to establish an independent advisory council that will provide guidelines on local city diplomacy, and a national public consultation that will determine whether the CCP is using such sister-city relationships to benefit China.
The groups in the rally, which included "Hong Kong Aid UK," "Power to Hongkongers," "Free Tibet," "Tibetan Community UK," "Global Alliance for Tibet & Persecuted Minorities," "Stop Uyghur Genocide," "Uyghurs Ukuc," and "World Uyghur Congress" marched from Picadilly Circus to the Chinese Embassy.
Other Hongkongers in southern England, about 200 of them, conducted a silent protest at the same time. These protesters, all clad in black apparel from head to toe and carrying signages, stood in silence at the city centers in Guildford, Kingston, Reading, and Sutton.
Nonstop Persecution
One of the groups, Hong Kong Aid, indicated that while some Chinese citizens have already escaped government persecution by moving to other nations such as the U.K., the communist Chinese government continues to suppress different people groups in China.
The CCP's persecution of Chinese citizens even spread outside of China, they said. The communist government of China does this by setting up public offices in different countries, which they then use to monitor and control the movements of Chinese dissidents abroad.
Earlier reports indicate that the Chinese government indeed establishes overseas stations in other countries. These offices, which provide public services for Chinese nationals such as renewing drivers licenses, are used by China's United Front Organizations to police the actions of Chinese citizens living their lives in other nations.
Chinese authorities then use a variety of methods-oftentimes abusive-to persuade specific people to return to China to face criminal proceedings.
