For 53-year-old Perry Dino, a paintbrush and canvas are weapons for opposing the...
HONG KONG - For 53-year-old Perry Dino, a paintbrush and canvas are weapons for opposing the Hong Kong government as it faces mass protests against a now-suspended bill that would allow extraditions to mainland China.
Dino, who has painted many of Hong Kong’s social movements including the pro-democracy Umbrella Movement in 2014, considers it important to record what is happening in the Chinese-ruled city.Hong Kong’s government has indefinitely suspended the bill that would allow criminal suspects to be sent to mainland China for trial in courts controlled by the Communist Party.
The bill has seen millions of people, fearing erosion of freedoms promised when Hong Kong returned to Chinese rule in 1997, throng the streets in protest, plunging the former British colony into political crisis. Among his paintings, which feature colorful brushstrokes, are ones showing demonstrators’ tents occupying major thoroughfares and a flower-etched tribute to a protester who fell to his death.
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