This week, my 68-year-old father was convicted and remanded in custody in Hong Kong, simply for being my father. This is the first time the Hong Kong government is convicting family to repress overseas voices.
Blood ties have become a crime.
In Its Latest Act of Repression, Hong Kong Convicted My Father for My Activism
by Anna Kwok
My father’s conviction is Beijing’s litmus test for Washington: Will the U.S. stand firm in favor of freedom?
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Anna Kwok during an interview at the Reuters bureau in Washington, D.C., July 10, 2023.
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About the Author
Anna Kwok is a Board Director and former Executive Director of the Hong Kong Democracy Council, a leading nonpartisan, nonprofit organization for Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement and Hong Kongers in the United States.
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