BARCELONA, Jan 25 — Escalating protest violence is not the way to bring about change, Hong Kong democracy activist Jason Ng has said, urging demonstrators to embrace non-violent means in the struggle to throw off a feared tightening of Beijing’s control. With the movement in a less frenetic and...
Hong Kong writer and activist Jason Y. Ng gives an interview with AFP in Barcelona on January 23, 2020. — AFP pic
Speaking to AFP in an interview in Barcelona, Ng said he hoped the protests would return to the non-violent ethos that had characterised the Umbrella Revolution, the mass pro-democracy demonstrations of 2014. Many protesters believed it would be “very difficult” to get the government’s attention and that of the international community without escalating the violence in the semi-autonomous city, he said.“There are things that in the future we hope we will see less, and I think the most obvious thing is some of the violence.”Born in Hong Kong, Ng emigrated with his family to Canada where he grew up and began his studies and legal training, which also took him to the United States and Italy.
Since the former British colony was handed over to China in 1997, there has been growing alarm at the erosion of freedoms there.
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