Ted Hui's Central office has gone

Operations have ceased at self-exiled former lawmaker Ted Hui Chi-fung's district council office in Central.

That came after government funding for the office was stopped after he fled to the United Kingdom last month.

A notice was put up at Hui's office on Gage Street directing citizens to turn to Bonnie Ng Hoi-yan, another Central and Western district councilor with the Democratic Party.

Announcing the office closure on Facebook yesterday, Hui said it was an end to his 10-year service for Central residents.

He said a by-election is likely to fill his position and he hoped his successor has a conscience and "the courage to speak the truth and is faithful to personal beliefs instead of the regime."

Hui also explained his exile, saying he left the Legislative Council because elected lawmakers could no longer play their opposing role in the legislature.

In the past decade, he claimed, officials were slack in responding to his demands no matter whether he used mild or radical means of expression, and he figured the ultimate solution was to replace the current administration with one that was voted in fully by citizens.

"Now, I'm in a new role to strive to replace our government and to liberate Hong Kong."

The 38-year-old activist faced nine charges over protest-related offenses in 2019.

But early last month he traveled to Denmark for faked meetings on climate change and announced he would be in exile and quit the Democratic Party.

He said the national security law meant he could be jailed for decades for just talking about human rights in Hong Kong.

Hui arrived in London several days later to meet up with his wife and two children and his parent. They flew out of Hong Kong a week before his Denmark trip.