Human Rights in Hong Kong: A Night Without Jimmy Lai and Chow Hang-tung. An analysis

An Evening without Chow Hang-tung and Jimmy Lai – prisoners of conscience in Hong Kong

We held an event as part of Reading’s International Festival “An Evening without Chow Hang-tung and Jimmy Lai – Human Rights in Hong Kong”. We were delighted to have a very knowledgeable panel, including Amnesty UK’s own Sacha Deshmukh. We were also very fortunate to have a former member of staff of the now closed AI Hong Kong (where Chow worked) and a social media officer for the now closed Apple Daily (which was Jimmy’s newspaper).
It was a very informative panel discussion and Q&A – at times, it was very emotional as Hong Kongers described the swift and devastating decline in human rights in their homeland.

We gathered more signatures for our political prisoners in Hong Kong petition- many thanks to other local groups who have contributed to this.

We were so pleased to be joined by members of the newly re-formed Reading University group. We look forward to future events together.