in the car in charge. the archipelago has had a patriarchal system for centuries. old where for much of society. women differently. what do they do with their power. and how sustainable is this culture. that clings over rango starts marching on t.w. . my price tag was $100000.00 so if they cost me all maybe kidnap me all killed me then to some people could get paid 410-0000. been the last became a chinese enemy of the state overnight he is one of

a growing number of hong kong r.'s who are currently flaming to britain. the trend has been sparked by draconian laws introduced by china to massively restrict the rights of hong kong citizens. those who demonstrate against china such as photographer jim long face harsh police measures criminal charges and imprisonment . he says he. everybody just knowing about this media and all them they did this stop. from their london exile internationally known representatives of the hong kong democracy movement such as nathan law are trying to wake up europe my message to the european freedom loving people is don't take freedom for granted you know liberal democracy seize on the calls on threats.

nathan law is one of hong kong's best known democracy activists. americas time magazine recently listed him as one of the 100 most influential people worldwide. after china effectively declared the democracy movement illegal last summer citing its so-called national security law 27 year old nathan fled to london and has since been pursuing his campaign in exile. this comes at a high price for him. i don't know who these me oh

no 3 months ago when i had successfully and safely passed the border control of hong kong airport and boarded the flight to london i reminded myself leaving is not the ending leaving marks a new start. looking out on top of one of our comrades are leaving hong kong more and more for the u.k. due to political oppressions back home. and then the really half of the tentative to say goodbye to my fellows and to my families because on the side that i will and then for them we can see that the one who suffer. not only the ones who are being prosecuted but their families. all nathan law has become cautious after he fled in june 2020 he kept his whereabouts a secret. i don't many of the democracy activists are afraid that unknown assailants might ambush them harm them or kidnap. i meant take them to china do you

think the last speech in october was his 1st public appearance in his new home. they don't feel it's a boy at all we don't even know if our personal safety would be threatened you know we can never be sure what random guys turning up and approaching us are going to do pay something to get the boat i thought i think home i think the. only go both. in nathan laws native hong kong a battle has been raging between 2 systems for years and it's now escalating. when britain handed over its former crown colony to the people's republic of china in 1997 beijing guaranteed hong kong as a certain amount of autonomy and democratic freedoms such as the right to vote. but

beijing has since been trying to restrict these freedoms with laws which undermine the freedom of expression and freedom of the press. nathan law has been fighting this since his student days he went into politics early and was the youngest politician ever to enter the city parliament much to the disgruntlement of the pro china hong kong government. law and his fellow activists were also involved in the mass protests against the growing influence of china in 2019. china finally stifled these protests in june 2020 with a draconian law which among other things allows for so-called dangerous persons to be extradited to china.

to cling to london seems to be the only safe way out for many critics of china but not all of them make it these exiled hong kong ers are demonstrating for the release of 12 young democracy activists beijing had arrested them as they were trying to flee to taiwan they have been detained in china ever since. the same how and homo the legacy and the ptolemy a movie will not give will you do well in both we could do whenever we are really good at how close. nathan law is considered a hero by many hong kong writers and particular those who recently had to flee just like have the. people such as petaca for jim all see contact with every ask his advice and want to be around have a lot more they've offered more of their friends over there. for

a dollar with a helmet gas mask and diving goggles. this is the gear worn by activists to protect themselves from tear gas and water cannons in hong kong what to do for many of the refugee activists such encounters will be a highlight in the coming weeks of their life in exile. the target for jim walsh fled to london 2 months after nathan long he too took part in the protests against china for which he faces a long prison sentence. this put him in a dilemma. either stay in hong kong and live with the constant fear of going to jail or swap his life with family and friends for the loneliness and supposedly freedom. when i was

sleeping i didn't tell anyone this. including my family and i. settled on the fear and try to tell my story to my friends to my families to them know. the situation of my. when i try to contact my family and the school that this really is a serious problem because i never go back to hong kong and they just cry on the phone. long is currently waiting to be granted asylum. he has hardly any money no job and no new friends as yet. his calls to his girlfriend in hong kong are often the highlight of his day. how bad you are you planning to quit your job. not really i'm just waiting to get

finance. you are better off being fine you should discuss this with me if you want to leave are you planning to come here with your plans or even that had been. it really depends on whether or not i get fired if i haven't signed the contract they would have fired me. over the meeting so we could only stay put and wait and see let's talk again later. the moment you know when i get home. or don't. go through. the pain of separation homesickness and loneliness. the fact that jim was lead in the middle of a pandemic where everyone in the world is keeping their distance makes everything more. difficult. when i 1st arrived in london i feel

bad because trying to cope at 19 or day country had been lost on i remember the fall off that moment this is set gone crazy or they were gone crazy because they says so i mean really. since the virus took up a bomb hold on london it's gone quiet in the metropolis. it's virtually impossible for new arrivals like hmong to meet people. he describes his new life in exile in a blog. to help the unemployed photographer make ends meet readers pay to read it.

his 1st blog entry shows his journey into exile. you can see this is the video when i was leaving hong kong. it just feels so unreal and so horrible and uncertain when i want to see hong kong again i can watch that video because that video means a lot to me. and there is no forever in the world when i look back at those things i feel it's still complicated. yeah i wish i could go back in that moment. i

am back to the time when he and all the others in hong kong still believed that they could succeed in their fight for democracy i was the 31st of august 29th teen was the day that shattered that belief. and this underground station police action against the demonstrators was so brutal that hong kong hours have now turned the place into a memorial site for their protests. jim walsh is one of those who was seriously injured. i feel i will be that natural because. the scenes all the presents were stationed on that night he said horrible you know everybody can't hurt just like at the sauce this movie. this is a am i right was everybody just knows that about this we do and

all of them they do this stuff because you can see that still chasing. my breath and i just ran into their faces because the people who could protect me. the prosecutors accused wong of participation in an illegal gathering 8 further charges were added later he was threatened with up to 10 years in jail was when i realize that we are latino and i'm so desperate after 3 days i brought my ticket from the internet and tried to leave in the released secretly i don't even tell anybody just leave. the u.k. had previously granted hong kong a 6 month stay without a visa. in summer the british government announced that citizens of the former colony could stay for up to 5 years and then become naturalized this is why so many

of them are heading to the u.k. . this former employee of the british consulate in hong kong was accused of espionage by the chinese authorities he was abducted and tortured. today he lives in a shared flat in london the u.k. has granted him political asylum. simon chiang volunteered to work for the british consulate in hong kong when they were seeking local staff. his job was to report on the protests from the inside and document the activities on local social media channels he completely denies any allegations of espionage. from some of the people's perspective they thought that i'm spying but it just depends on your position i feel this color information as

you see this kind of things are all public information but if i wanted to collect those public information and let the british diplomat to get better to get better understanding what's actually happening in hong kong so why not. china saw it differently and arrested chang at hong kong airport in august 29th. when i've been out of the detention center almost immediately have been hanged shackled. and bly forward. and then to trot me on to the point where. the whole scenario but like the kidnapping and then stick show me to a normal places and that is to hold me up i cannot move just a little bit and when you are few paying for saw it with shuffle when's your flu shot for the were. there but me at the because.

it's way towards. i can't feel for how many barrels but it seems like was. for 15 days nobody knew where cheney was. whether it was due to the public campaign or pressure from the british government china released him after various detours he arrived in london 6 months later. always have been like for example a chinese agent want to bring me back in the u.k. or i realized i was suddenly in hong kong always that sense of feel a haunting will be the uncertainty and fear. from the last time i can. i was still a worker for the car so that's. a record. high. chance for the rest of my life back to my hometown.

simon chang is currently living from his savings and sometimes writes for the media . he doesn't know how long things will continue why this. china's policies also affect hong kong 1st who have been living in london for a longer time. property expert finland now moved to london for a job in early 2019. as mass protests got going in hong kong nobody realized he was one of the organizers of the movement writing an online forums under his pseudonym launch out. odd man out off the market at

a lot of his slogans the fight for freedom and stand with hong kong have now become battle cries and i was. the man who nobody knew became an anonymous hero by day and conspicuous employee but after work and undercover force driving the democracy protests i cannot. my friends call what is doing and all the other line. of those days i would not let them through too many if it goes against a safety issue so i'm struggling because i cannot tell. anyone what i face. his cover was blown in the summer of 2020. journalists discovered and revealed the

identity of the person behind the pseudonym moksha virtually overnight the 26 year old became an enemy of the chinese state at 1st he didn't know what to do after 2 months of calling the railfan and i just feel that i need to do so he's now a wanted man in hong kong now decided to be proactive and publish the video in october a declaration of war on china from exile greetings this is land chalo alias feed now yes this is my actual appearance it was never our aim to become refugees hong kong is scattered across the globe must demonstrate our worth and strengths in impending the c.c.p. creating our own future and earning respect from our international allies in the meantime give us liberty or give us death. many of the hong kong democracy activists started getting organized in london in

the fall. some of them are more radical like these demonstrators in front of the chinese embassy. but most of them are fighting a peaceful campaign for democracy in their native country like photographer jim was . a lawful snow that protests on friday and every friday they would have a lot of guys coming to the u.k. from the hong kong just want to. understand what the situation they are facing. right now the regular fridays for freedom demonstrations during the winter have also increasingly become a networking event for the democracy activists. many of them are worried about their. livelihood's. i so you have been staying in the same place at the height of the same place and i've started looking for

a job. for you this shouldn't be too much to worry about it's worrying i'm running out of money. it should be all right i should manage to find myself a job you shouldn't have any problem. oftentimes i go how about the hassle if i have to beg for money these days. the former staffer of the british consulate in hong kong simon chang is part of the group. i signed up for the i. was. in where. each one of us is insignificant and holds power and yet there is no difference between the ones who is standing in the front line and those who is the poor fact stage we should encourage them to speak out that if there were no he dared to speak out on commies always this would be heard

in china and this is being what the chinese communist party is trying to achieve so it's all i see is i i then they start singing their secret national anthem glory to hong kong was now a days they could be arrested for singing this in hong kong i am who i can speak for myself i can speak korean so that's a things how much money cannot buy so i was still feel like i'm still alive through was not. good no different from what my mom while wong and chad campaigned for hong kong from exile events in their homeland has come to a head. hong kong's security forces are arresting more and more. democratic politicians and journalists who are critical of china. the whole democratic opposition has resigned and increasingly more famous activists such as joshua long

are being given prison sentences. how do the activists in london react to such news from home. nathan law tweets his feelings. it is despairing to witness your dearest friends being imprisoned while you are living in exile yes you have your role overseas yet no matter how hard i work a sense of guilt always haunts me i feel like i owe them something that i cannot repay a speechless night. this is surely a reason why nathan law travels tirelessly throughout europe. here he has become one of the main activists of the democracy for hong kong mission.

when china's leadership is on a state visit like here in september in germany nathan law is not far away condemning the chinese regime and supporting local activists. from britain to the forum in a some us saying that germany could take the lead to take the sanction of mccann is a main european union to implement the. chinese officials who are responsible for the humor isolation and to consider countermeasures source the national security law. back in london the autumn's 2nd coronavirus way may have restricted laws travelling diplomacy but it has not so. him down in this mission. my message to the european freedom nothing people is don't take freedom for granted your liberal democracy says under constant

threats by the most basic we fed them for the past that case so i'm urging you to really get your head straight to start working on constraining these author and tearing expansion and trying to implement policies that hold these people accountable there are millions of people there are suffering under this author and terry james and we're not going to pretend nothing happens. law doesn't talk about how he feels personally or how he's coping with his lonely life in london. he hasn't yet decided whether he will stay in london and apply for asylum. law makes a clear distinction between his political activism and his personal life. he does reveal this if we realize that there is

a probability that couldn't able to go back for at least that case it's not a good feeling. emotionally is very demanding but for me i see it as more than myself about myself is about how we can advance the cause of holocaust movement even though i had to pay the price are i'm willing to do so. organizer of the protest movement stand with hong kong also constantly wonders whether his mission is worth the sacrifice. my price tag was $100000.00 pounds so if he calls me or maybe kidnap me or cube. me some people could get paid for 100001st it will i was quite shocked after hearing such a remark but then i just at that true to the source off fear. it

doesn't stop me from all fighting. so what is next for the activists. jim walsh has plans for a future in exile. as soon as his asylum is granted he wants to move to brighton on england's south coast to watch the ocean and hear the crashing of the way. look at that new. day spoof of all is that. this is the 1st time i see the old friend i. look at all since i feel peaceful you. forgot a lot of bad things. i

think i will try. to decide on also my son my on my son off my father boyfriend my girlfriend and i also on my focus i need to think of all my future my girlfriend to try my best. to you. there will be another force open for you it is the concept that i need to have faith and i believe that. congress can freedom. in the future of this c.c.p. redound.

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