Chan Po-ying, the Hong Kong activist who still dares to protest

10 years after Umbrella Movement, League of Social Democrats leader keeps up 'hope'

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Chan Po-ying, chair of Hong Kong's League of Social Democrats, says that although the authorities crushed the Umbrella Movement, political movements can make comebacks and beat their former oppressors. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Kenji Kawase and Ken Kobayashi)

KENJI KAWASE, Nikkei Asia chief business news correspondent

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.

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