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Jul 3, 2020 · Published 4:59 AM PDT, July 3, 2020. HONG KONG (AP) — Prominent Hong Kong democracy activist Nathan Law has left the city for an undisclosed location after testifying in a U.S. congressional hearing about a tough new security law imposed by mainland China on the semi-autonomous territory.
Jul 12, 2023 · Sarah Tilotta/CNN. CNN — Hong Kong police searched the family home of exiled pro-democracy activist Nathan Law on Tuesday morning, taking relatives away for questioning, the city’s public...
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Jul 11, 2023 · 11 July 2023. By Frances Mao,BBC News. Getty Images. A bounty was recently offered by Hong Kong authorities for Nathan Law. Hong Kong police have raided the family home of Nathan Law, a...
- The Decision to 'Remake Your Life'
- No Choice But to Leave
- The Chinese Approach
- No End in Sight
It was a choice that hundreds of thousands were forced to make in the 20th century. Jews and many others fled Hitler's Germany in the 1930s. Hungarians in 1956 and Czechs and Slovaks in 1968 fled their countries as the Soviet Union crushed attempts at revolt and reform. Almost 38,000 Hungarians and 12,000 Czechs and Slovaks were received as officia...
Modern totalitarian regimes regularly have recourse to use exile as a weapon. The Soviet Union forced two future dissident Nobel Prize winners for literature into exile ― Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Joseph Brodsky. Many others received the same treatment, including Marina Voikhanskaya, who is a friend. She is 85 and lives in Cambridge, England. Fort...
China has also used exile as a weapon, most notably against the artist Ai Weiwei. Many of his art installations were critical of the regime in Beijing. In 2011, he was arrested and held in a small cell for 81 days, watched by video cameras with the lights on 24 hours a day. After his release, he was charged with tax evasion. Finally, in 2015, his p...
His words were prophetic. Six months after our meeting, Liu was arrested again, just before he was about to release a "charter of human rights and democracy." "We should end the practice of viewing words as crimes," the charter said. The regime disagreed. A year later, Liu was convicted of "inciting subversion of the state's power" and sentenced to...
Jul 3, 2023 · Among the eight people Hong Kong's national security police say are wanted for "collusion with foreign forces" are activist and former legislator Nathan Law, now in exile in the U.K.; former...
Jul 2, 2020 · 2 July 2020. Nathan Law: 'The Hong Kong movement is still alive' One of Hong Kong's most prominent young democracy activists has fled the territory after China imposed a sweeping, controversial...
Jul 13, 2020 · Nathan Law has said he fears being imprisoned by Beijing if he returns to Hong Kong. One of Hong Kong's most prominent young pro-democracy activists says he is in London after fleeing the...
