High school students light up their mobile phones as they sing ‘Glory to Hong Kong’ during a pro-democracy rally. A judge has denied the government’s request to ban the anthem. – AFP pic, July 28, 2023.
A HONG Kong judge denied today a government request for an injunction banning “Glory to Hong Kong”, a defiant anthem that emerged from the city’s huge pro-democracy protests in 2019. The Hong Kong government had in June requested an injunction order so that the song – penned anonymously – would be banned from being disseminated or performed “with the intention of inciting others to commit secession or with a seditious intent”.
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