What does one know about Avery Ng Man-yuen, apart from him being “the General” in the League of Social Democrats? He studied business in Australia and once mixed in commercial circles, where he was a consultant for a multinational company making US$127,437 a year. In order to help people lower down the social ladder and the elderly, he gave up a career of high pay and a generous business package to tread in the activist circles. Ng did not expect the “pothole” to go deeper and deeper but eventually found himself in jail. He was jailed before, but this time when he was released, Hong Kong was cordoned all over with “red lines.” To survive in this environment, maybe one needs to live like Ng—keep his spirit and be his true self despite being wedged in the cracks.
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Ng, ex-chairman of the League of Social Democrats, was sentenced to imprisonment of twelve months and two weeks for two unauthorized assemblies on October 1 and 20, 2019. On April 30, 2022, he was released, after a sentence served, from Hei Ling Chau Correctional Institution. Posting on Facebook, Ng described the past year or so as a “vacation.”“As soon as I disembarked from the ferry, the first thing I did was get a haircut.” “Great that I was released today, just in time to get a free tram ride thanks to the Keung To Day.” April 30 was the birthday of Keung To, the hottest pop singer in Hong Kong.
