Australia-based artist Badiucao said his four-second video work was designed to test “the freedom-of-speech situation in Hong Kong”.
A video of the Australia-based Chinese dissident Badiucao silently saying “you must take part in revolution” has been playing since March 28.
Pro-democracy publisher Jimmy Lai has taken the stand for the first time since his arrest on national security charges.
In Hong Kong,where almost 300 people including Australian Gordon Ng have been arrested on national security grounds since the introduction of draconian security laws in 2020,wearing the wrong T-shirt can land you in jail.
Beijing’s national security laws aimed to wipe out dissent in the democratic enclave of Hong Kong. Now they have neutered Nicole Kidman in the Amazon series Expats.
Prominent activist publisher Jimmy Lai was arrested in August 2020 during a crackdown on the city’s pro-democracy movement under the sweeping national security law.
Hong Kong placed bounties on the heads of five activists,following on from the eight announced in July.
Ted Hui,a Hongkonger who fled to Australia via London in 2021,says he is now waiting for the Chinese Communist Party to fall.
The move comes one week after Hong Kong police placed bounties on the heads of Law and seven other activists who fled Beijing’s security crackdown.
Hong Kong police are offering more than $190,000 for information about eight activists who fled Beijing’s security crackdown including two who now live in Australia.