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Al Jazeera
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James Montague

The beautiful game: Still a crucible for protest in Hong Kong?

Supporters react during an international football friendly match between Hong Kong and Singapore at Mongkok Stadium in Hong Kong on Thursday, March 23, 2023 [Louise Delmotte/AP]

In 2019, as pro-democracy protesters marched through the streets of Hong Kong, Nathan Law could hear the pro-democracy songs almost everywhere he went.

At the time, Law was perhaps the highest-profile pro-democracy activist in Hong Kong. He had come to prominence as one of the student leaders of the 2014 Umbrella Movement, moving against plans to allow Beijing to veto political candidates to run Hong Kong.

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