HONG KONG: Ryan began the day pretending to his parents that he was off to play football and ended it with a rubber bullet to the leg sustained in ...
HONG KONG: Ryan began the day pretending to his parents that he was off to play football and ended it with a rubber bullet to the leg sustained in clashes with Hong Kong's police.
A culture has built up around Hong Kong's"braves" who are hailed by supporters as heroes and reviled by their opponents as nihilists. When things are quiet, Ryan explained, his main task is to set up roadblocks and use zip-ties to build barricades. Protester Ryan marching through a tunnel with fellow protesters in Causeway Bay in Hong Kong, on Aug 31, 2019.
Like on previous days, Ryan avoided communicating with fellow protesters, turning up to the gathering on his own. "Of course I'm scared and it is a normal feeling," he said."I believe no one is fearless when they are at the front".
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