Brian Kern/Kong Tsung-gan/江松澗

I’ve written three books on the Hong Kong freedom struggle: Umbrella: A Political Tale from Hong Kong about the 2014 Umbrella Movement; As long as there is resistance, there is hope about the period from 2014 to 2018; and Liberate Hong Kong: Stories from the freedom struggle about the 2019 protests. In Hong Kong, I worked for many different pro-democracy organizations over many years. Almost all of them have been forced to shut down since the imposition of the draconian “national security law” in mid-2020. In exile, I work with Hong Kong diaspora groups committed to the goals of freedom, democracy and self-determination. I monitor political arrests and imprisonments in Hong Kong. I was lead researcher on Hong Kong Democracy Council’s 2022 political prisoners report, which marked the “grim milestone” of 1,000 political prisoners.