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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Daniel Hurst Foreign affairs and defence correspondent

Pro-democracy advocate says Australia should prepare to lay future sanctions against Hong Kong officials

Kevin Yam in a podcast studio
‘They think that just because we are ethnically Chinese, they own us,’ says Australian lawyer and Hong Kong democracy activist Kevin Yam. Photograph: ANU

An Australian citizen who the Hong Kong authorities have vowed to “pursue for life” has risked further ire from Beijing by calling on the Australian government to consider future sanctions against Chinese officials.

Kevin Yam, one of eight overseas-based pro-democracy advocates accused of “encouraging sanctions … to destroy Hong Kong”, said the city’s descent into increasingly repressive rule had been “gut-wrenching”.

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