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...didn't want to go home to Britain. He refused to board a connecting flight in Bangkok, where Thai immigration authorities rejected his request to remain in the country, even after he claimed to have a heart attack in the departure lounge. Gadd then hopped a flight to Hong Kong, where officials once again denied him entry, sending him instead back to Thailand. After twenty hours in the Bangkok transit hall - and after 2,661 miles of air travel in Southeast Asia - he was finally forced on a Thai Airways flight to London...
...camp if they don't follow the authorities' instructions. Reeducation-through-labor is a form of detention for up to four years used to punish relatively minor criminal activity like prostitution and religious activity banned by the state, like practicing Falun Gong. The China Labour Bulletin, a Hong Kong-based human rights NGO, estimated last year that the system has more than 300,000 detainees. "There is an overarching message of intimidation," says Kenneth Lim, Hong Kong program manager for Human Rights in China. "It's not restricted to a particular issue or particular age group or segment...
When asked whether she'd consider entering Hong Kong politics, Chan quickly shakes her head. The vegan philosophy major has no appetite for the cynicism and compromises that make up political life, and would prefer to keep her ideals intact. "I'll always fight for what I care about," she says, and hopes, in the meantime, that she can use her 15 minutes to help other activists. After being booted out off the equestrian event, Chan passed on three tickets - and her much-photographed Tibetan flag - to members of Students for a Free Tibet, who managed to wave it around...
Chan's agitprop may not be commanding much attention in Beijing's halls of power, but it has entranced Hong Kong's press. Images of the attractive undergrad confronting police had photographers' lenses aflutter in a city whose fringe dissidents and stodgy politicians are hardly red-carpet stars. But many see Chan as a naive, media-hungry dilettante, an impression only heightened after Facebook photos of her partying with friends in clubs were leaked to Chinese tabloids...
...fate tied to the booming mainland. For many, China is no longer the communist bogeyman that it once was for those living in the former British colony. "Hong Kongers are caught in the fervor of the Olympics," says Ma Ngok, a political analyst at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. "Even if they're not nationalist, they won't be inclined to be sympathetic toward Tibetans." Even Chan herself thinks self-determination for Tibetans is a "lost cause," but she intends to soldier on regardless...