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Hong Kong Democracy Activist Released From Prison

January 22, 2022 by DC Editors Leave a Comment

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Hong Kong Democracy Activist Released From Prison
Edward Leung Tin-kei Press conference 2016 – Image source

Hong Kong pro-democracy activist, Edward Leung, has been released from jail. “Leung, who was jailed in 2018, first used a slogan that was popular during the 2019 pro-democracy protests and has since been declared illegal”. This article is published by NBC News. Here is an excerpt:

Hong Kong activist Edward Leung, 30, who first used one of the most popular protest chants of the 2019 pro-democracy demonstrations, was released from prison on Wednesday.

Leung first used “Liberate Hong Kong! Revolution of our times” as a campaign slogan for a 2016 legislative election he was later banned from running in, due to his past advocacy for independence from China.

The slogan has since been declared illegal under the controversial national security law imposed by Beijing in 2020, which carries a sentence of up to life in prison. The first person arrested under the law drove a motorcycle carrying a black flag with the slogan into several police officers.

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Filed Under: International Democracy Tagged With: Asia, Democracy Protests, Hong Kong, Political Dissidents

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