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Hong Kong Democracy Advocate Seeks Asylum In Britain

Hong Kong democracy activist Tony Chung who was jailed under the city's national security law announced Friday he has fled to Britain to seek asylum (Credit: AFP)

Hong Kong democracy activist Tony Chung said Friday he had fled to Britain because he could no longer endure living in fear, with authorities pressuring him to become a paid informant while banning him from working.

In 2021, Chung, then 20, became the youngest person to be imprisoned under Hong Kong's sweeping national security law -- imposed after massive and at times violent pro-democracy protests kicked off in 2019 in the former British colony.

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