Hong Kongers get creative against security law
Customers sit near blank notes on a Lennon Wall inside a pro-democracy restaurant in Hong Kong. – AFP pic, July 4, 2020.
HONG Kongers are finding creative ways to voice dissent after Beijing blanketed the city in a new security law and police began arresting people displaying now forbidden political slogans. Faced with the sudden threat of prosecution for anything that might promote greater autonomy or independence for the restless city, residents are using word play and even subverting Chinese Communist Party dogma to express their frustration.
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