He had attracted the attention of the photographers on the spot, and undoubtedly a little more irritated still the Chinese power, sporting the shield of Captain America. Ma Chun-man was sentenced on November 11 to 5 years and 9 months in prison by a Hong Kong court.
In a letter to Reuters news agency, the 31-year-old said he could not show himself ” cowardly ” on “ the road to democracy and freedom “. Chris Ng, one of Ma Chun-man’s attorneys, said an appeal of the decision was not certain.
Ma Chun-man was part of the processions of the 2019 and 2020 protests in Hong Kong, where participants protested against China’s growing authority over Hong Kong, which has remained a relatively independent territory since its handover to China by the United Kingdom. Uni, in 1997.
This new stranglehold of the Chinese giant on Hong Kong was embodied in the law for national security, adopted on June 30, 2020 by Beijing, which considerably restricts the freedom of expression and demonstration, without laying down a clear framework of censorship. .
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Ma Chun-man is also the second person to be sentenced under this law: 117 people have been arrested for actions against the latter, since the promulgation of June 2020.
The use of figures from popular culture is a constant in protest movements: in 2014, already in China, but also in Thailand, the rallying sign of the rebels of the literary and cinematographic saga Hunger Games had become that of the demonstrators.
Photography: illustration, Pat Loika, CC BY 2.0
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