Hong Kong

We long to have a home where civil freedoms are respected, where our children will not be subject to mass surveillance, abuse of human rights, political censorship and mass incarceration.
~Joshua Wong

Saluting the bravery of pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong today. I wish I had good news about them, but the long work continues.

Protest artwork referencing Eugène Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People (1830)
A Yang for Studio Incendo CC BY 4.0

From 2020:



From a January 3, 2022 article:

Democracy is over in Hong Kong, in other words, and has been for some time now. What Beijing is currently in is a mop-up mode, as it looks to take the vice it has built around the city-state and spin the tightening lever...

Cantopop star and prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Denise Ho was arrested at her home on Wednesday morning by the city’s national security police.

From November 18, 2024: 45 Hong Kong pro-democracy activists are sentenced to jail in city’s biggest national security trial

"Among those handed sentences on Tuesday was Joshua Wong, a former student leader and poster child of the city’s once thriving pro-democracy movement, who shouted 'I love Hong Kong' before he left the dock." CNN