Hong Kong: 53 pro-democracy activists arrested

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Meanwhile in Hong Kong, the region is losing its autonomy under Chinese authority as police carried out mass arrests targeting 53 pro-democracy activists...

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00:00We, the Hong Kongers, will not abandon our fight for freedom.

00:04It's not because we hate China.

00:06It's because we cannot afford to lose our freedom to the authoritarian regime.

00:13So right now China is sending a message to us that says the authoritarian regime is watching

00:20you and even though the slightest opposition is not tolerated.

00:26On the 6th of January 2021, 53 pro-democracy activists have been arrested by the Hong Kong

00:37police and the Chinese National Security Bureau.

00:42And actually they have been involved in the pro-democracy primaries in 2020.

00:51And this election was later finally postponed due to COVID.

00:57And these 53 activists, actually they comprised of, some of them are the organizers of this

01:06pro-democracy primaries in July and the others are the potential candidates for the parliamentary

01:15election.

01:16We have always undergone these parliamentary elections and this is the only thing we left

01:24to prove that our system is still different from that in China.

01:29And now actually it symbolizes a collapse of the parliamentary elections in Hong Kong.

01:36And now when they arrest these 53 organizers or the candidates, potential candidates of

01:44the election, that means the Chinese government would like to defy the will of people, the

01:50will of 600,000 voters in Hong Kong.

01:55We have to use not just only coming out to the street, not just only direct encounter

02:02the force violently against the police force, for example, but there are various numerous

02:08ways to fight against this totalitarian regime.

02:13The people who stay in foreign countries and we can still prolong and continue our

02:19campaigns like the lobbyings, like our cultural projects here in different countries and to

02:27preserve the Hong Kong culture, preserve the Hong Kong language, to preserve everything

02:32that we treasure in Hong Kong.

02:35And on the other hand, we can also fight, we can also ask for certain help from the

02:42international arena to continue our fight.

02:44And then like the Tibetans, like the Uyghurs, and then there are a lot of people who are

02:51now being oppressed by the Chinese regime.

02:53They are still fighting against this authoritarian, even totalitarian regime because of the protection

03:01of the different countries all over the world.

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