Jailing a young woman like Agnes Chow and young men like Ivan Lam and Joshua Wong – simply because they love Hong Kong – is a travesty of justice. You cannot fight the future, time is on their side.

Dec 2, 2020 | News

Three brave young people. They follow in the footsteps of others who have been jailed for speaking out for freedom. This is what the Reverend Martin Luther King Jnr wrote from his cell in Birmingham prison:https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/letter-birmingham-jail

Jailing A young woman like Agnes Chow and young men like Ivan Lam and Joshua Wong – simply because they love Hong Kong – is a travesty of justice. You cannot fight the future, time is on their side.

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