The “Democrats Primary Election Case” (Hong Kong 47 case) has been on trial for about 20 days, and most defendants have been on remand for more than two years. The U.S. House of Representatives “Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and Chinese Communist Party” held a hearing on Feb. 28 to address the Hong Kong situation.
Committee Chairman and Republican Congressman Mike Gallagher met with reporters together with many Hong Kong democrats in exile, criticizing the CCP for threatening global democracy and human rights and calling for the release of the “Hong Kong 47” defendants.
In his speech, Mike Gallagher started by quoting one verse made in prison in 2017 from Joshua Wong Chi-fung, one of the defendants in the case: “Our bodies are held capped, but our pursuit of freedom cannot be contained.”…