Claudia Mo says she read more than 300 books and was repressed in her French while in prison.
A former Hong Kong legislator who was imprisoned as part of an offensive in dissent in the Chinese territory has described his penitentiary experience as “Kafka's style.”
Claudia Mo, a former journalist who co -founded the Prodemocracy Civic Party, was released on Tuesday after more than four years after bars for national security crimes.
MO, who was released along with three other former politicians, declared himself guilty of conspiracy to subvert state power in 2022 in a gigantic case of national security related to the participation of 47 activists in an unofficial primary election.
Another 44 activists declared themselves guilty or convicted in the historical case, which was convicted of Western governments and rights groups as an example of Beijing's trampling for freedoms in the former British colony.
In his first comments since its launch, Mo said Friday that he had read more than 300 books and repressed himself in his French while he was detained.
“Thank you very much for all the concern and attention expressed in my liberation. Life in prison was surreal, almost Kafka style to start. But I did not suffer the two main traumas of imprisonment, loneliness and boredom, thanks to social arrangements inside,” MO said in a Facebook publication.
Mo thanked his followers, including the reporters of the Press Libertad Sin Bordras and the retired Roman Cardinal Joseph Zen, who was arrested by national security land in 2022 without being accused.
“My thoughts are with my coacked that remain in custody,” he said.
Once it houses a vibrant political opposition and a free media scene, Hong Kong became a policy with little space for dissent due to the imposition of a National Security Law in 2020 in 2020.
Beijing and the Hong Kong government have praised the legislation to restore peace and order to the city after the eruption of massive anti -government protests often violent in 2019.
On Friday, the National Security Police of Hong Kong arrested the father and brother of the activist Wanted Anna Kwok, the head of the Hong Kong Democracy Council based in Washington, under suspicion of handling their finances, local media reported.
Police said they arrested two men, 35 and 68, under suspicion of “trying to deal, directly or indirectly, any funds or other financial assets or economic resources” property or controlled by “a relevant abscasz”.
