By Agence France-Presse A few days before Christmas, Hong Kong activist Tony Chung boarded a flight to Okinawa, Japan, carrying nothing but a backpack — his casual appearance a ruse to hide plans to seek political asylum in the UK. Chung was among the youngest people in Hong Kong to be convicted under a sweeping […]
By Agence France-Presse The U.K. government tried to help Greece secure the Parthenon Marbles on loan two decades ago in a bid to drum up support for London’s 2012 Olympics’ bid, according to files released Friday. Internal British government correspondence from 2002 and 2003 about the Parthenon friezes, also known as the Elgin Marbles, were […]
By Agence France-Presse Hong Kong democracy activist Tony Chung said Friday he had fled to Britain because he could no longer endure supervision from authorities, who had pressured him to become an informant and limited his work options. In 2021, Chung, then 20, became the youngest person to be imprisoned under Hong Kong’s national security […]