I led the 'Umbrella' protests - Witness History podcast, BBC World Service

Описание: Nathan Law, one of the student leaders responsible for Hong Kong's 2014 "Umbrella" protests, tells his story.

Click here to subscribe to our channel 👉🏽 https://bbc.in/3VyyriM

On the 26 September 2014 Nathan Law stood on a makeshift stage outside Hong Kong's central government complex and chanted "Democracy Now" and "Freedom" into a microphone.

He was leading hundreds of protesters who had gathered to demand that China grants Hong Kong free and fair elections.

As the day went on the protest continued to grow and it wasn’t long before Nathan’s face was all over the news.

Then at 2am his microphone was cut off and the protest plunged into darkness as plain-clothed police officers rushed to the stage and arrested him.

Nathan tells Anoushka Mutanda-Dougherty how despite his arrest the protests continued to grow into some of the largest Hong Kong had ever seen lasting 79 days in total.

From leading the movement, to going to jail and now living in exile in the UK he reflects on ten years of activism.

00:00 Introduction
00:47 Nathan Law's upbringing
01:47 Tiananmen Square vigil
04:14 The history of Hong Kong
06:29 Occupying civic square
08:13 Nathan Law's Mum finding out
08:37 Going to jail
09:30 The Umbrella Protests
12:22 Introducing the National security law
14:38 Looking back on the lat ten years

Watch more episodes of Witness History here 👉🏽    • Witness History  

----------------
This is the official BBC World Service YouTube channel.
If you like what we do, you can also find us here:
Instagram 👉🏽   / bbcworldservice  
Twitter 👉🏽   / bbcworldservice  
Facebook 👉🏽   / bbcworldservice  
BBC World Service website 👉🏽 https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldserviceradio

Thanks for watching and subscribing!
#BBCWorldService #WorldService #China #HongKong #UmbrellaProtests