“In July 2020, the implementation of the ‘National Security Law (NSL)’ no doubt officially turned Hong Kong into Xianggang and at the same time sent Hong Kong to the guillotine,” Professor Cheung Chan-fai, former head of the Department of Philosophy at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), said. As a septuagenarian, now 73 years old, he still insists on speaking for freedom by “using the pen in place of a sword.”
In June 2020, Professor Cheung travelled to the UK and was to return to Hong Kong soon. However, due to the implementation of the NSL in Hong Kong, he heard the news that many pro-democracy activists, politicians, media reporters, and intellectuals had been detained and sentenced. In desperation, he chose to remain and settle in the UK….