Kelly arrived in Canada in February.
For many Hong Kongers who are currently applying for asylum in Canada, the best hope for 2021 is to get refugee status as soon as possible. Social organizations supporting democracy in Hong Kong have also continued to call on the Government of Canada to speed up its assistance to Hong Kong people in the new year.
Kelly (under the real name) arrived in Canada in February, describing the scare as “a tying, bumpy and lucky escape from Hong Kong.” Having graduated from college in Hong Kong, she began to engage in social movements early, and in the summer of 2019 the anti-NATIONAL law campaign became a high-level member of the organization, knowing many loving parent groups who helped dispatch the protesters’ transportation and resource problems, and even helped to take care of some young protesters as young as 14 or 15.
‘I never thought I’d have to leave Hong Kong, but at the beginning of this year a lot of my partner got caught and she started to be alert,’ she said. As she was about to leave, the Hong Kong police arrested another girl, mistakenly identified as her, and later released the girl, but the buffer time of the day allowed Kelly to board the plane; I am now applying for asylum as a refugee and I am going to sue the Hong Kong Police. Then you go and ask the Hong Kong police about me and say I’m here, it’s murdering me! “
Kelly and a group of Hong Kong refugees are hoping to gain full Canadian status in 2021. (Provided by respondents)
She was detained at the airport for 10 hours and, despite her immediate asylum claim, was granted only conditional entry, and two days later was questioned for six hours at the Immigration and Refugee Office. Fortunately, after a few months, her application was accepted and formally approved, at least enough to give her the right to work and health insurance.
Kelly’s wish for the New Year is simple: first, she hopes that her refugee approval will be approved so that she can become a legal international refugee and live in Canada with peace of mind, and that more people will understand Hong Kong’s plight and help Hong Kong’s young people have a better future.
Kelly’s parents were very different from her own ideas, especially her father, who didn’t understand her taking to the streets, and criticized them for ruining Hong Kong’s stability. But Kelly says the stability in her father’s mouth is just a warm-boiled frog waiting to die, so Hong Kong’s future is hopeless: “Just as you’re at the end of your illness, you can take medicine to last a few years, you can choose to replace your organs, but you may die; Most of Hong Kong’s elderly people, they have a stable life, they will choose to die comfortably now, this and young people are a big gap. “
About 50 Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters have submitted refugee applications to Canada. The New Hong Kong Cultural Association has been actively assisting Hong Kong refugees arriving in Canada. One of the principals, Mr Hong, is worried that the Hong Kong government will further restrict Hong Kong people from leaving Hong Kong in the future, and young protesters will not be able to leave Hong Kong: “If Hong Kong is really blocked and Hong Kong people cannot leave the country, we will lobby Ottawa and the international community to help put pressure on the Hong Kong authorities.” We have been lobbying Ottawa not to sit idly by and impose sanctions on Hong Kong officials for human rights violations. “
Mr. Hong said that Hong Kong had changed since the National Security Law came into force and that more young Hong Kong people were expected to leave in 2021 and that their organizations would do more to help them.
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