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RSS Feeds`Hidden language`: Hong Kongers get creative to mark dissent against security law
(WorldNews Asia)

 
 

4 july 2020 13:10:57

 
`Hidden language`: Hong Kongers get creative to mark dissent against security law
(WorldNews Asia)
 


Hong Kong: Hong Kongers are finding creative ways to voice dissent after Beijing blanketed the city in the 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. On a bridge in the busy shopping district of Causeway Bay, a key spot for pro-democracy protests over the past year, traffic thunders past newly daubed graffiti that declares: "Arise, ye who refuse to be slaves". The phrase is taken from the...


 
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