{"id":32347,"date":"2025-08-17T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T04:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multimetro.hk\/plus\/2025\/08\/17\/australia-grants-asylum-to-former-hong-kong-lawmaker-and-pro-democracy-activist\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T12:15:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T04:15:00","slug":"australia-grants-asylum-to-former-hong-kong-lawmaker-and-pro-democracy-activist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimetro.hk\/plus\/2025\/08\/17\/australia-grants-asylum-to-former-hong-kong-lawmaker-and-pro-democracy-activist\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia grants asylum to former Hong Kong lawmaker and pro-democracy activist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Ted Hui has been granted asylum in Australia, the former lawmaker said on Saturday, more than four years after he left Hong Kong, where he faces criminal charges over the 2019 pro-democracy protests.<br \/>Hui said he received written notice from the Australian Department of Home Affairs on Friday approving his claim and that his wife, children and parents were also granted visas.<br \/>&#8220;When people around me say &#8216;congratulations&#8217; to me, although I politely thank them, I can&#8217;t help but feel sad in my heart. How to congratulate a political refugee who misses his hometown?&#8221; posted on Facebook.<br \/>&#8220;If it weren&#8217;t for political persecution, I would never have thought of living in a foreign land. Immigrants can always return to their home towns to visit relatives at any time; Exiles have no home.&#8221;<br \/>The Home Affairs Department did not immediately respond to emailed questions sent after business hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Ted Hui has been granted asylum in Australia, the former lawmaker said on Saturday, more than four years after he left Hong Kong, where he faces criminal charges over the 2019 pro-democracy protests.Hui said he received written notice from the Australian Department of Home Affairs on Friday approving his claim and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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