The director of a documentary about Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement says he has deleted a scene featuring a dissident artist playing China's ...
Kacey Wong's performance art involved playing China's national anthem as he sat in a cage. HONG KONG: The director of a documentary about Hong Kong's protest movement says he has deleted a scene featuring a dissident artist playing China's national anthem after a law was passed criminalising"insults" to the revolutionary song.
As a result, the city has been a bastion of artistic and creative freedom within authoritarian China but many fear that is fast changing. Critics fear it will bring mainland-style oppression and deliver a fatal blow to free speech given anti-subversion laws are routinely used by Beijing to crush dissent over the border.
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