{"id":116971,"date":"2011-01-02T23:07:25","date_gmt":"2011-01-03T06:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=116971"},"modified":"2011-01-02T23:19:38","modified_gmt":"2011-01-03T06:19:38","slug":"szeto-wah-hong-kong-democracy-activist-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2011\/01\/szeto-wah-hong-kong-democracy-activist-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Szeto Wah, Hong Kong Democracy Activist, Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"
Szeto Wah, a prominent democracy activist in Hong Kong, has died at the age of 79 from lung cancer. From AP<\/a>:<\/p>\n \nA teacher and a former primary school principal by trade, Szeto started his political career organizing fellow teachers, building Hong Kong’s Professional Teachers’ Union into one of the territory’s most powerful unions.<\/p>\n But he is best known as a democracy advocate. Szeto, like many Hong Kongers, was shocked by Beijing’s military suppression of the pro-democracy protests on Tiananmen, in which at least several hundred people were killed.<\/p>\n Along with others he organized the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Democratic Movements in China. The group, which he headed until his death, became a key advocate for both the victims of Tiananmen and for mainland dissidents jailed by the Chinese government.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n See also a report from the New York Times<\/a> and “Keeping Uncle Wah’s legacy alive<\/a>\u200e” from the Hong Kong-based Standard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Szeto Wah, a prominent democracy activist in Hong Kong, has died at the age of 79 from lung cancer. From AP: A teacher and a former primary school principal by trade, Szeto started his political career organizing fellow teachers, building Hong Kong’s Professional Teachers’ Union into one of the territory’s most powerful unions. But he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[35,34,100],"tags":[10899,5949,5900],"class_list":["post-116971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hong-kong","category-human-rights","category-politics","tag-hong-kong-activism","tag-hong-kong-democracy","tag-june-4th","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\n