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Hong Kong student activist Tony Chung has fled to Britain, according to an Instagram post on Thursday. Chung said in the post, which also carried a photo of his arrival at London’s Heathrow Airport, that he arrived in Britain on Wednesday evening and that he would apply for asylum there. The 22-year-old former convenor of the pro-independence group Studentlocalism was released from prison in the summer. He was convicted in 2021 for allegedly violating the strict national security law imposed on Hong Kong by Beijing in June 2020. Chung was first sentenced to prison at the end of 2020 for his in…

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