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In 2011 Mr Zheng (far left) implicated protesters in mainland China of being too near foreign media.
China has selected a hard-line figure as head of its new security company in Hong Kong.
Zheng Yanxiong is best known for his role in dealing with a demonstration over a land disagreement in the southern Chinese town of Wukan in 2011.
The new company, answering straight to Beijing, is being established to implement an extreme security law passed today in Hong Kong.
Challengers of the law say it deteriorates the area’s liberties.
The law targets secession, subversion and terrorism with punishments of up to life in prison.
A number of leading pro-democracy activists have actually stepped down from their functions and one of them, one-time student leader and regional legislator Nathan Law, has actually run away the territory
Beijing has dismissed criticism, stating that the law is essential to stop the kind of pro-democracy protests seen in Hong Kong throughout much of 2019.
Hong Kong’s sovereignty was restored to China by Britain in 1997 and specific rights were supposed to be ensured for at least 50 years under the “one country, two systems” agreement.
But China has actually rejected complaints by the UK and other Western nations that it is in breach of these warranties as interference in its internal affairs.
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Mr Zheng’s most recent senior position was as secretary general of the Communist Celebration committee in the southern province of Guangdong.
But he is best called celebration employer in the city of Shanwei in 2011 throughout a demonstration by villagers in Wukan seeking payment for land requisitioned by the government.
At the time he criticised the villagers for talking to “a couple of rotten foreign media organisations” rather of the federal government about their complaints
” These media organisations will just enjoy when our socialist county falls apart,” he said in remarks broadcast on regional TELEVISION.
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Mr Luo (pictured right of centre toasting with President Carrie Lam) is already a crucial Beijing official in Hong Kong.
The protest caused an unusual concession by the authorities, with the direct election of a popular regional leader. However, five years later he was imprisoned for corruption.
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