It is now three years after the 2019 anti-extradition movement in Hong Kong, and the Hong Kong authorities are still chasing and prosecuting the protesters. To date, nearly 3,000 of them have been prosecuted, with more than 1,000 convicted.
While in prison they can only communicate with the outside world by letters. On the other hand, even though many Hong Kong people have moved overseas in recent years, a lot of them still care about their like-minded fellows in Hong Kong.
In view of this, some of them have organised this “DriftStayPost” programme in Taiwan to collect letters written by overseas Hong Kong people and send them to the inmates on their behalf. The aim is to let people currently locked up inside the prison walls know that there are still people who care about them. At the same time, it also provides one way that overseas Hong Kong people can still feel reconnected to Hong Kong….