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Hong Kong’s Prisoners of Conscience Nominated for the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize

In recent years, the political and cultural landscape in Hong Kong has undergone a dramatic change. There was a rapid deterioration in the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly, expression, and association as Hong Kong’s authorities increasingly adopted mainland China’s vague and all-encompassing definition of national security. Numerous pro-democracy leaders in Hong Kong have been imprisoned, ...

Emma Lu

A mural of Joshua Wong on a wall in Hong Kong.