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Aug 13, 2020 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Forgotten victims in #HongKong protests. Thread.
1. The guy in this Pulitzer Prize-winning photo is called Yang Xuezhi. Last Nov. 11, he took a bus to MongKok, where hundreds of protesters gathered. A woman clad in black noticed him holding a cellphone & came to question him.
Hearing Yang speak in Mandarin, the woman shouted and promptly gathered a group of people around him. Attackers hurled stones, hammers at Yang. He was rescued by HK police on the brink of death, then received around 60 stitches, with scars covering the back of his head.