Globe and Mail: ‘Be careful you don’t die in an accident’: Hong Kong protester living in Canada receives daily threats
Tue November, 2021, Age: 2 years
In 2020, China made a refugee of Ms. Lai, too.
The pro-democracy activist fled Hong Kong, the city of her birth, for Canada last year as Beijing tightened its grip over the territory it acquired from Britain in 1997. She was part of an exodus that has only expanded since China enacted a draconian national security law to silence critics in the city it had once promised would be allowed to retain Western-style civil liberties.