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Hong Kong’s Crackdown on Free Speech
December 7, 2021, 7:00 PM
FreeIt is time for the last Goldfarb Center event of the semester. As part of its focus on freedom of speech, the Goldfarb Center is hosting an in-person talk that will be live streamed at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 7. We will be hosting a conversation with Nathan Law, a well-known democracy activist currently in political exile in London, about the lack of free speech and expression in Hong Kong. Law will speak about the history and current state of free expression in Hong Kong and the need to raise international support for the advancement of its democracy and human rights. He will also discuss his new book, Freedom: How We Lose It and How We Fight Back, which will be released the same day.
In 2016, Nathan Law became Hong Kong’s youngest elected lawmaker at just 23. A year later, he was imprisoned by the Chinese authorities for his part in the Umbrella Movement. He has since been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for his pro-democracy advocacy and named one of TIME magazine’s People of the Year 2020.