Hong Kong’s Long Struggle for Democracy

Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)

I was one of the organisers of the 2014 pro-democracy Umbrella Movement and was sentenced to sixteen months of imprisonment for inciting people to join a seventy-nine-day occupation of some major avenues in Hong Kong. Life in prison was difficult. Food was lousy. The temperature there was unbearably hot summer and chilly in winter. There were hundreds of rules regulating prison life. Sharing food and books or keeping an orange overnight could be punished by solitary confinement without books,...

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