Hong Kong Occupy Activists Can Be Evicted from HSBC’s Land
Photo by Eliott Brown
HSBC won a legal bid to clear out anti-capitalists protestors from a public space below the bank’s Asian headquarters in the southern Chinese financial center of Hong Kong. The activists must leave by 9p.m. on August 27.
The activists have been living under the bank’s headquarters since October 15 when protestors in Hong Kong joined the worldwide demonstration against corporate excess and economic inequality.
The Occupy activist’s numbers have gone from around 200 to nearly a dozen. While HSBC owns the land the activists have been living on, it is legally designated as a public passageway. However, a judge ruled that the activist’s use of the space goes beyond the land’s designated use.
HSBC named four defendants in its lawsuit including Mui Kaiming who said he would “absolutely not leave.”
