"Three years after protesters at #HongKong's Polytechnic University fought pitched battles with columns of riot police and armored cars, many supporters of the city's vanishing freedoms are now in exile." rfa.org/english/news/c…
"Some, like the U.K.-based group Stand With Hong Kong, are using evidence of human rights violations during the siege and elsewhere to put pressure on the British government to impose sanctions on Hong Kong officials responsible for police violence against protesters, ...
... including a number of British nationals serving as high-ranking officers in the Hong Kong police force at the time."
"Others, like documentary filmmaker Chan Tze-woon, remember the protest movement through film. Chan's latest film "Blue Island" is a retrospective on the protest movement and, in the director's words, ...
... represents "a desperate attempt to capture the final moments of a sinking island."
"Chan's film was nominated at Taiwan's Golden Horse awards at the weekend, but can't be screened in Hong Kong under citywide crackdown on dissent, including any public reference to the protest movement."
"A former protester who gave only the nickname Venus for fear of reprisals against friends and family said she was a 17-year-old high school student who volunteered to extinguish live tear gas rounds on the barricades.
She told a recent news conference in London that she is still living with the psychological trauma of the siege, and called on the government to use "the sacrifices of our Hong Kong brothers and sisters as ammunition.""
"A number of countries, such as the United States, have sanctioned Hong Kong officials," Venus said. "We believe the U.K. should also implement Magnitsky-style sanctions."
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