A. Sarin,
QuilletteOn July 7, a young man from China crossed the border into Hong Kong, found the nearest KFC, and locked himself in the bathroom. He took out a pen and a paper sign, trembling at the thought of how his life was about to change. I come from the mainland, he wrote. Thank you, Hongkongers! Don't give up, fight for freedom! Then he joined the protesters marching from Tsim Sha Tsui to West Kowloon, and held up his sign. When he returned to China the police arrested him, stripped him naked, forced him to sing There is no new China without the Communist Party, and held him in a room...
