31.   They want to create a rich and prosperous Hong Kong which will tolerate no dissenting views, and where supporters of Beijing will be given political and commercial favor.

32.   There were some dissenting views.

33.   If the government wants to return the country to democracy, it must tolerate political dissension and stop treating all dissenting political views as treason, added the NLC.

34.   As in Vietnam, citizens do not have the right to change their government, and are arbitrarily arrested for expressing dissenting political views, it said.

35.   It also cited forced labour, lack of religious freedoms, and arbitrary arrest and detention for expression of dissenting political views.

36.   Leung Kwok-hung, spokesman of the group, said it feared Hong Kong would eventually be controlled by China if nothing was done to preserve dissenting views.