Article 6ZCPJ Hong Kong activist Tony Chung says he has been granted asylum in the UK

Hong Kong activist Tony Chung says he has been granted asylum in the UK

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Helen Davidson in Taipei
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Chung, one of youngest people to get jail sentence under security law, posts Home Office letter agreeing he has well-founded fear of persecution'

The Hong Kong independence activist Tony Chung says he has been granted asylum in the UK, two years after fleeing the Chinese region.

Chung, 24, revealed the news on his Instagram page on Sunday, the day after the former Hong Kong legislator Ted Hui said he had been granted asylum in Australia. Both Chung and Hui are among dozens of pro-democracy activists targeted with arrest warrants and 1m Hong Kong dollar bounties by authorities.

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