At 20 years old, Chloe Cheung (photo) checks behind her back every time she leaves her home. She doesn't take the same route to work even two days in a row, and continually checks the rear view mirror while driving.
Though she lives in London now, there's a bounty on her head of a million Hong Kong dollars (about $128,000). She's living in constant fear.
Her crime? As a student back in Hong Kong, she protested against the government and in favor of democracy in 2019. When the government started arresting protesters, she fled to Britain. Maybe she expected a sympathetic welcome, because Hong Kong was ruled by the British under a lease agreement with China for 99 years.
That lease ended in 1997 and they officially pulled out. China re-established control.
from "She Fled Repression in Hong Kong"
(cont'd tomorrow)
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