joshua wang joshua welcome what is your reaction to the arrest of jimmy lie. with the friends of beijing which is hops guarantee our personal safety and what the dollar and a muscle rest condo with the national secretary legislation which just proved how that shouldn't be fact is being used to science up a loss what is the message of beijing is trying to deliver to the pro-democracy movement in hong kong with such a high profile arrest that. we have no intention to have any collusion with the foreign force with never call on a stench that is after nationalist implement it but now beijing just provided these leaders again there and just try to generate more and more excuse to silence a wise and to crack the protest but no matter what happened when just urging beijing to hold the ability to stop the erosion of you know 1st where you including press freedom and also free election all we fight for but josh rojas successful are you all being really in your terms i mean you as a candidate have been barred from standing in these elections which themselves have now been postponed is it having any impact on beijing. good us says or us out from the moccasin movement they can't kick us out from the office they can censor us out from the lights but they got this call thought our company went to a fight for freedom and called you to engage in the movement. you are committed to engaging with the democracy movement but speaking of bow to democratic processes in hong kong they have been postponed or peace for you when it comes to the legislative council elections the government said it was because of the koran no matter spend make do you believe the government. i believe this no. you know you expect the election will still continue instead of saying they try to postpone the election now if they hope they try to cancel the whole election at all but do you but. do you believe their reasoning that it's because of the koran or how to spend them again therefore it was unsafe to hold these elections. with the frets and their wrists generated by dell forty's which is hard for us to. ensure everything but i think i was hired for the world to put hong kong under the global spotlight but hong kong in a way he's being put under the global spotlight i mean you have sanctions that have been imposed from the united states against kerry for instance and some other officials do you think that support is working for the pro-democracy movement in hong kong. we are not only focusing on the move or the announcement from the united states i think how country in europe react on the crackdown in hong kong would be also remarkable for us to realize that is tied to hold the accountability do you think europe is doing and off to hold to beijing accountable. different countries have different foreign policy to us hochul and china but the window was there are regional approach and once that consideration is time to reassess house their policy to continue and has. fights and also how they reassess their front policy to the hot line crackdown from beijing i'd like to talk about you i mean you disbanded your political party demos you stuart on the time that the new security law was being implemented you said you feared being targeted by beeching as a result of the new security law do you still have those fears is. which is hard for us to ensure. our safety and i'm not sure when i will be arrest that and be extradited to china and we might be all worry about the threats that we need to face in upcoming future but whether what happened was do have no regret at all to continue colas on free action some of your colleagues for example need to know and others have left hong kong to try and bring hong kong's voice to the international arena do you plan on leaving home congress from. calling you plan to fight for freedom my decision. joshua long for democracy activist speaking to us from hong kong thank you very much for your time so clearly joshua warren is determined to stay and fight for democracy in hong kong but many others in the chinese territory aren't so sure continuing political instability and fears of an erosion of the territories freedoms have forced people to look for exit options quite literally. gary and his fiance has just a few more months to enjoy their life in hong kong before they say goodbye to their hometown and then the great to australia when gary filed the application 5 years ago leaving was only a back up plan says dan hong kong has been through massive social and political upheaval but it was the president antigovernment protests last year that finally pushed him over the at church. this isn't the hong kong i grew up with any more freedom has been restricted but hong kong will soon be no different from the rest of china i feel even more unsafe under the new national security law we've lost so