An exiled Hong Kong activist has successfully gained a place at the University of Oxford.
Honcques Laus has accepted an offer from the university, where he will enrol in this Michaelmas Term.
He is studying a theology and philosophy Bachelor's degree whilst he has also received a scholarship from the university to cover part of his expenses.
Mr Laus is one of the first six pro-democracy activists wanted under China's National Security Legislation since 2020 because of their dissenting opinion and civil rights protest in Hong Kong.
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His prominence rose in November 2017 when he displayed a pro-independence banner alongside the then Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam.
Following political persecution by the Hong Kong government, Mr Laus has been granted political asylum and protection in Britain.
He said: "Oxford is a vigorous place for intellectual discourse and political engagement where I can be empowered to continue my relentless pursuit of civil liberty and emphatic protest against tyranny.
"We must not kowtow to the malevolent Communist Bandits and tyrannical regimes in Hong Kong and China.”
In England, Mr Laus refounded his own publishing company Honcques Laus’s Press.
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He published his academic articles on analytic philosophy and linguistics, his Cantonese translation of John Stuart Mill's On Liberty, and his political book on the tyrannical regimes in Hong Kong and China.
His publications are available in major libraries across the world such as the British Library, Bodleian Libraries, and Penn Libraries among others although they remain unavailable in the public libraries in Hong Kong for political reasons.
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