Uncertain future for jailed Hong Kong protesters: what’s next for resident doctor, top music graduate and engineer?


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Alex Lee* was on the brink of starting his career as a doctor when he was jailed for taking part in an unlawful assembly during Hong Kong’s months of social unrest in 2019.

Arrested during a “singing protest” at a Yuen Long shopping centre on Christmas Eve that year, he is believed to be the first doctor jailed over the unrest.

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