We want democracy in Hong Kong. “It smacks of political imprisonment, plain and simple,” said Jason Ng, the author of Umbrellas in Bloom, a book about Hong Kong’s youth protest movement. Marco Rubio, US senator“Beijing’s heavy hand is on display for all to see as they attempt to crush the next generation of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement,” he added. “[These sentences] significantly increase the cost of dissent in Hong Kong,” Ng warned. Wong also used his final hours of freedom to send a message to Xi: “Please respect the desires of Hong Kong people.

Source: The Guardian August 17, 2017 08:27 UTC