As he queued to board a flight out of Hong Kong to Taiwan last month, dissident artist Kacey Wong was painfully aware of the extra immigration officials brought in to scrutinise each departing passenger.
Wong, 51, was one of the city's best-known provocateurs, an artist who specialised in satirising and criticising those in power.
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