London –
For Richard Wong, 25, who moved to Britain from Hong Kong two years ago, it feels ‘strange’ to take part in free elections and exercise the very rights he once fought for, knowing his friends back home can no longer do.
“In Hong Kong we tried so hard to get democracy, but then we lost it. And I moved here, and we are actually practicing democracy, but in a very different context,” says Wong, who volunteers at our door. an opposition Labor Party candidate in next month’s British general election.
“I still have friends who are doing their time in prison and I’m… doing this on the other side of the world.”
