Millions of people protested in Hong Kong against China’s Communist Party back in 2019. China imposed a national security law soon after. Reuters highlights the arrests of several hundred people and how their lives are several years later.
Chan Kim Kam, 38, was one of the first people arrested in Hong Kong under the revamped sedition law, part of a second package of national security laws enacted in 2024 known as Article 23 . She and several others were accused of publishing posts with “seditious intent” related to the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown.
Although she hasn’t been charged, Chan, in an interview with Reuters, said she has lost several jobs due to the fallout of her arrest and now has to report to a police station weekly. “Is it really necessary to kill off a person’s survival space in Hong Kong?” she asked rhetorically. “It’s a kind of suppression targeting people with certain political backgrounds.”
A set of illustrated Post-it notes shows each person arrested, and the theme is constant throughout the article. Colors indicate the type of law invoked to warrant an arrest.
The transitions between anecdote and chart type is very good here and links reality to the statistically abstract.
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