HONG KONG -- Since China imposed its national security law on Hong Kong in mid-2020, public protests have all but ceased. Yet Chan Po-ying and her colleagues at the League of Social Democrats still hit the streets weekly despite the risk of being thrown in jail, where her husband, Leung Kwok-hung, now languishes.
For Chan, much has changed since she and Leung, known as "Long Hair," were among a crowd of demonstrators who gathered near the government headquarters exactly a decade ago. The protest on Sept. 26, 2014, marked the unofficial beginning of what would become known as the Umbrella Movement, which formally kicked off two days later when organizers declared they were "occupying" the Central business district in pursuit of democratic political reforms.
