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Famous pro-democracy and LGBT activist, the cantopop singer was arrested this Wednesday morning along with five other members of the online media “Stand News”, of which she was a member of the board of directors.
“I’m Ok. Don’t worry about me, my friends. ” Denise Ho wanted to be reassuring, this Wednesday, on her Facebook account. Early in the morning, the Hong Kong star singer was arrested at her home by the police, who seized official documents belonging to her as well as computers and telephones from her home. At the same time, five other people linked to the pro-democracy information site News stand were also arrested, in what the Committee to Protect Journalists described as“Open attack on the already ragged press freedom in Hong Kong”. Denise Ho was a member of the board of directors of this media, which announced its closure in the wake. In a few hours, his Facebook post collected more than 70,000 “likes», A sign of the popularity of the 44-year-old woman, who spent her childhood in Canada.
It must be said that Denise Ho has acquired since the beginning of the 2010s a reputation that goes far beyond the framework of cantopop – literally cantonese popular music, as the Chinese music of Hongk is called …