\u0027I try to do what is right. I have this responsibility. I’m just asking for freedom of expression,\u0027 she once said in an interview when asked about the personal…
It’s been a rocky new existence for Hong Kong-born Canadian citizen Denise Ho, in what amounts to her third or fourth such turnabout. Ho’s ardent pro-democracy activism in Hong Kong over the past eight years has changed just about everything.Her celebrations would be different had she continued her path as an acclaimed pop star and actress in Hong Kong rather than as a dissident enemy of the state.
Ho was 11 years old when she moved from Hong Kong to Canada with her parents, both teachers, in 1988. They settled in Montreal where she became a Canadian citizen, completed her schooling and started studies in graphic design at Université du Québec à Montréal. An occupation of Hong Kong streets to protest the government’s election restrictions and clampdown on dissent seemed to capture Ho’s attention and she became a vocal and active supporter.
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