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Facebook Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionNathan Law: ‘The Hong Kong movement is still alive’One of Hong Kong’s most prominent young democracy activists has fled the territory after China imposed a sweeping, controversial security law.Nathan Law, a one-time student leader and local legislator who spent time in prison after 2014’s “Umbrella Protests”, said he would continue his advocacy work from abroad.”I think the movement is still pretty much alive,” he told the BBC.Despite the high personal risk, he said “Hong Kong people will not give up”.While activists say the new law erodes freedoms, Beijing has dismissed the...