Hong Kong’s new type of political prisoner is democracy activists. This article published in The New York Times is written by Tiffany May and Paul Mozur. Here is an excerpt

Over 2,500 people are being prosecuted on various charges for their roles in [recent Hong Kong] protests, according to the police. The authorities are still working through a backlog of potential prosecutions of the more than 10,000 arrested between June 2019 and March of this year.

Nearly 300 have been sentenced to prison as of the end of last year, a sizable number for a city with an incarcerated population of about 7,000 people. Beijing’s imposition last year of a national security law gives prosecutors greater powers to target even more.

Many of the activists are contemplating a future in exile. Others struggle to stay committed to the cause for which they sit behind bars.

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