Hours after four Hong Kong pro-democracy lawmakers were expelled from the city’s legislature, 15 of their colleagues followed through on a pledge and resigned en masse Wednesday. The dismissals of Alvin Yeung, Denis Kwok, Kwok Ka-ki and Kenneth Leung occurred immediately after a Chinese legislative committee ruled that Hong Kong’s government could disqualify any lawmaker, believed to be a threat to national security, without going through the courts.…

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