His face has hardened since 2014, when the whole world discovered him on television among the leaders of the Umbrella Revolution.
The former Hong Kong student has lost his youthful features, and abandoned his teenage sweatshirts for a white shirt and a navy blue jacket.
When we meet him in a Parisian café, Nathan Law completes his very first trip to France where he spent a short week multiplying contacts, before returning to London where he lives in exile.
The young man left Hong Kong in July 2020 after the adoption of the national security law, which represses all dissent in the former British colony returned to China in 1997.
“I had to cut ties with those who are remained there, for their own safety,”
he said.
For two years now he has lived without direct contact with his family.
He barely knows that his first brother is studying in Taiwan, when his other brother stayed in Hong Kong with his mother.
"In China…
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