john, dar essex, activist, journalist and politicians living and anxiety too much on my shoulders. but i have to hold this weight because i'm responsible for the future follow country for the people who are behind the bus for their mission. people need to know what is happening there, you know, are series guardians of truth. watch now on youtube dw documentary, this is the, the news a shot coming up today. i will no meant to provide security is destroying hong kong scottsdale. heritage. fair to put us under pressure under the national security law has driven out system activists overseas. the profile, how they are trying to present elements of hong kong sculpture overseas. the

management of you're welcome to the the news aisha. i'm glad you could join us on cons. awesome culture has suffered since paging and bows to decode your netflix account, you know, on the city 3 years ago, fell out of arbitrary arrest for so called a suspicious publications or articles seen as anti government as false to many authors, residents and actors to seek refuge abroad yeah, they are trying to present the cultural and memory of hong kong correspondence vinny, so reports from the u. k. once upon a time sherman waltz, but his followers into sheets village, they took over the village and started to eat the sheep. but the sheep resisted this children's book was one of the 1st band by the hong kong government. since the national security lock took effect. this year, isaac chang, and other congress who left the city,

republished it in britain. they published new episodes and even an english version . they've sold thousands of copies a we'll see you had gotten the books mean a lot to hong congress because of its history and repercussions as we want to keep the stories a live until hong kong or is a home or abroad that we haven't been to fi suggestion of all the top, i say many feel the story about sherman wolf and the sheep refers to the chinese leadership and hong kong, hers. and the harsh reaction to protests in 2019. that harsh reaction continues. hong kong judge last year pulled the books were seditious, and jailed its creators. police recently arrested people just for owning the books . protests on the street have dwindled over the last 3 years. many arrests, the national security law. and cobit mean, if you still take part attention switched to publications, a local newspaper reports, the public libraries followed official orders and have removed more than 40 percent

of books and videos covering political themes. those about the $198090.00 ottoman square massacre. hong kong is anti government protests and almost everything created by prominent dissidence, disappeared from the selves. many schools have done the same results. the government has a juicy not to recommend books featuring bought ideology. so you may find other ways to read those books. how are you to go? highly bullshit. when hong zoom left hong kong for britain, this is what he took with him. well i, yep. you are the most of my belongings were books except some necessary clothes. i brought every piece of paper from home that most of keeping the print isn't usually because online stuff can be easily removed nowadays. and hong kong he brought so many books with him. 300 boxes. that when he settled in birmingham, he built a shuttle to house them a library in exile. i was actually on sea slope,

obviously with all of my digital equity, not from the facts are wiped off by the force of the national security loan. whether it's digital or printed, just so you didn't, everyone should preserve any information about the old hong kong before 2020. well . so that our next generation has reliable sources to rebuild our memories and pass code on. go get on the policy once a week. this library in london becomes a little part of hong kong. denise and some other hong kong are started it last year. they call it gathering leads. each saturday they filled the shelves with books, tests from friend to friend, or bought from independent bookstores, back in hong kong. they also organized screening discussion salons and more to keep hong kong culture a life the so finally looking for example, we're afraid that our kids won't speak our mother tongue anymore. so we have cantonese reading and singing activities. it's a soft power. so i think it's what maintains our identity, so yeah, i'm only like entity them. isaac thought he was safe to launch the sheep village

books and exile out of reach of home comes national security laws. but a reading in britain was abruptly cancelled due to concerns at the venue and a well known american digital publishing platform took down their books, setting unspecified legal reasons. isaac thinks such organizations are worried about upsetting the chinese government. the national security laws are designed to reach beyond the chinese borders. still, he's determined to carry on telling the stories of the sheep page of resistance is still alive, passing on our history. speaking the truth by and by the hong kong government to this even only reading a book is a way of defiance. booked on the apple and see that boy i don't call jeremy novel mo, from washington dc is active is sunny. true. he's an advisor to the non profit hong kong democracy council and a co founder of floyd. it's k, hong kong magazine for the d. s. for up. sonny, you're based in the united states. why was it important for you to start the magazine for the hong kong dias for a that's

a good question. muscle. many young people, we witness called the nation. most of the law that will impose you can 2020 is being recognized by the homo government to rest this it in as far as the system. so i think the freedom of speech is no longer protected, you know, come on. in fact, more than 1400 political present this way, now you don't call. so we need an oversee platform that allows us barbara to discuss the fusion or phone call and discuss is trying to support our techs in a more comprehensive way to come back to shooting event. and this information, you know, call. so we do, we don't pay we hot in overseas in order to ensure the dissemination of authentic information can be spread. and the narrative of the co democracy can catch up 5 in overseas, which is great, or for profiling hong kong, active as an office to flight abroad,

and preserving the cultural memory of hong kong. people such as these students lean hong kong. as i taught that a certain number of people off back home home with him this to use. i mean also i've been encouraged by the participation to oversee skim indigo k. but also something because an odd has left hong kong do this. they want to have and i'm following the allowed them to create, compose, and fiction freely. but what is all of that uh, uh, where of content that is being created overseas by people such as you also publish all of that, contributing to democracy in hong kong. all i mean, oh, when we left the phone call, actually we still do a lot of work the up the aspect book. i know it's just try to help the monk democracy mussman from oversee by do duty. and i will also help advocacy and

organizing this kind of oversee media. you just let me know that says the correct on. many pulled him up as a media like the apple, the is being shut down and more than thousands of journalists become unemployed. so we have this kind of platform we do, we have this kind of, we see a little button, the us bar macbook to support them. that would be, we'd be essential to keep the momentum and try to bring in that their, their energy a to, to the most. but you're talking about the momentum energy. i'd like to look at what it is also like for people who have fled here. this on by that i'd like to play from an artist lou long, who fled to london here to use talking about how safe he feels in the city. we slack home home guessing. we want to be safe. yeah. yeah. and then we think the u. k. governmental saving us, that's the, that's true. but we're not totally saying yes. yes. if,

if the government don't stand up strong against the ccp, we will never be safe. yeah. let me just talk to him long talking over there. can you help us understand why he doesn't feel safe in the okay, despite being away from china? oh, thank you so much for waiting this. i think that is also a fairly alarming phenomenon that we use in new york or in the world, even in new j in auto poll democracy preston stage, which is called the trust and national repression. so when we talk about discipline and the wellbeing of hong kong people or even full audit groups, light, a weekly, or the baton groups, we often based on most of the repression even reflect on our modeling. so the trust and national depression use will show for the chinese government and hold on government. they have been doing

a lot of in overseas. also trying to fraction and sign is discipline. so when we talk about the national stuff, people and the correct dining hall, one of the a problem of that is even if you just try to enjoy the privilege and freedom, the new k for instance. and then you want to criticize to beijing government. the whole government can actually, uh, accuse you and prosecute you using the national stuff. he's not even going to base in london. so i think this kind of tries to national depression as well. and that also strict bi limits the people of freedom of speech and freedom of movement. and that is for allow me as should be most as by the full and government. looking at the culture in hong kong itself, in october 2021. i'm going introduced a new censorship law to bob feelings that coat might endanger national security. does this mean the directors now need to steer clear of some topics to avoid putting invest as an actors at risk?

as i am afraid um. do you have right to be to us, um, based on that new censorship floor. uh and the parents like tara get home home. um, so many movies and documentary is actually which of the most common being banned in home call. so many movies cannot be even watch my home home. they can only be watch, give, oversee, and by the on the yeah. the i'm people who talk to then call makes can be also with the mask hope walking to as opposed to the casselman. so yes, people the south sense of the content in order to supply to get home home. and that also helps you why some offices and other people they would love to off for and not a foreign country to all, to, to live in order to, to continue with their work and also some some artwork. now where some governments have taken an excise from hong kong, but do you think they have adequately stood up for hong kong democracy,

a desktop every time? the question, because all the, all we now we also come to a fresh quote, which is that the full and especially of the almost when we do beat that the international companies like a co ordinated was born to, um, um, through the whole, from until the agent got them in at the 1st year of the whole weight of the outbreak of the almost when you 2019 the u. s. and the national committee and they did something which is like providing humanitarian both ways. and the us government also send sion some evil doors who should be held responsible for the crack down in hong kong. but we still like the response from the kick off a month from the you to see that the really to the risk with the hunger women. they are willing to also uh to, to have a more restrictive stance to take action. uh to hold the equal to is a comfortable,

you know, call. so yes, i think they should do more. uh, you know, other um to that the international community know that they can walk away with that . we leave it there. thanks so much for joining us today. sunny turn and that does have such a date as most orders from the region on our website. the dot com forward slash a share, and as everybody you can follow us on facebook and twitter feed back tomorrow at the same time. so you then by the we are all set and we're watching closely. we all seem to bring you the story behind the news. we're rolling about unbiased information all 3 months. sometimes

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war and ukraine. but before we come to that, i would like to ask you a more of a personal question. as you travel this country quite extensively. what kind of surprised you about the american people and what can maybe, german us and europeans learn from the americans. why? what poverty surprised me most? all that shouldn't have was the same kind of friendliness the, the polite and the way coming attitude that is in the american d. n a. i think that's something diamonds cooked. we're going to learn from the americans. some people say that's fakes here in the united states. really high testers, less oh, so the thing it's fake, confounded a confound rudeness with authenticity and an artist is true. so i don't i don't agree with.