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Hong Kong seeks court ban on protest anthem

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HONG KONG: Hong Kong's government said on Tuesday (Jun 6) that it had asked the city's high court to ban the song Glory to Hong Kong, an anthem born out of huge protests in 2019. The government has

The government has sought an injunction order, which, if granted, would make Glory to Hong Kong the first song to be banned in the city since the former British colony was handed over to China in 1997.

A defiant protest anthem, it integrated a key protest slogan -"break now the dawn, liberate our Hong Kong; in common breath, revolution of our times" - in its Cantonese lyrics and became the unofficial soundtrack of the demonstrations.

 

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