Joshua Wong, once a teenage figurehead of Hong Kong’s democracy movement, faces the prospect of entering middle age in prison, after a court Thursday meted out a 10-year sentence over a second national security conviction.
Stuff like this is why I’m reminded no matter how much positive things I hear from China, I really don’t want to go there because I’m afraid of disappearing for being too ‘unique’.
Yeah, it’s odd the duality. Massive improvements for quality of life and scientific research, but at the same time they still imprison small-time protestors like this poor guy and don’t have basic social things like gay marriage.
Stuff like this is why I’m reminded no matter how much positive things I hear from China, I really don’t want to go there because I’m afraid of disappearing for being too ‘unique’.
Yeah, it’s odd the duality. Massive improvements for quality of life and scientific research, but at the same time they still imprison small-time protestors like this poor guy and don’t have basic social things like gay marriage.