A jailed Hong Kong lawyer defies Beijing’s campaign to subjugate the city

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A jailed Hong Kong lawyer defies Beijing’s campaign to subjugate the city

It was just after sunrise when the police came for Chow Hang-tung.

The table in the room where she was working was strewn with documents as she prepared a bail application for a fellow pro-democracy activist. The 37-year-old barrister had pulled an all-nighter in her Hong Kong chambers on the 34th floor of the Bank of America Tower, where she liked to fuel herself with Japanese instant noodles and cups of instant coffee.

Suddenly, there was a loud rattling at the chambers’ glass doors. Chow tapped the Facebook app on her phone and began live-streaming. Someone kept ringing the doorbell and trying to input a security code. “It looks like they’ve really decided to take action today,” she said with a short laugh.

Source：Reuters #Nov10

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