He Guilan: I still have one breath left, and I will fight hard without surrender.

In 2019, she was a reporter. She returned to Hong Kong during the summer vacation studying in Europe and ran into the anti-extradition bill movement. She helped her old club "Standpoint News" with continuous reports. The two live broadcasts caused a sensation and even directly affected the direction of the movement. She became era node.

In 2020, she took off her press pass and participated in the democratic primaries. She switched from recording the current situation to creating change through actions. In 2021, she was charged with "subversion of state power." She made a self-defense statement in court and became the only defendant to refuse bail conditions that restricted freedom of speech.

Her name is He Guilan, a former reporter for Hong Kong's "Stand News" and the BBC. She has done news that is most concerned about human rights in China, and she has also written reports that are most in-depth about local ideological trends in Hong Kong. She is forthright, passionate, always has her hair flying, and looks forward to her glory. When discussing topics, you can fight with others for 300 rounds until late at night; during an interview, Liang Jiping, a young native scholar in exile overseas, said that she is "an amazing opponent" and even the singer Huang Yaoming has experienced her "persistence". Different paths lead to the same goal, but behind the scenes, she is using the perspective of a Hong Konger to examine social movements and cultural activities in various places to find political significance and draw lessons from the local democratic movement.

She has a keen sense of touch. In the Legislative Council on July 1, 2019, she live broadcasted that demonstrators rushed into the Legislative Council and carried away the "dead soldiers" who were unwilling to leave, regardless of themselves. On July 21, in Yuen Long, she live broadcasted that she was suspected of being supported by the authorities. , people in white clothes with a "rural black" background attacked citizens indiscriminately. In the process, she was beaten to the ground, but the live broadcast continued. The report caused a huge response and to some extent bridged the differences between different movement lines. She was nicknamed "Sister Stand" by the public.

As street movements decline and free press space continues to be suppressed, she believes that in order to safeguard the mission of journalists, the political system must be fundamentally reformed. Feeling deeply that the energy of the social movement was pouring into her, she decided to leave her beloved journalistic career and participate in the democratic primaries, hoping to "break" in the political "dead situation": the democrats won half of the seats, vetoed the budget bill, and triggered constitutional rule. crisis. 600,000 voters voted, and she became the top vote-getter in New Territories East. She was subsequently disqualified from running for the Legislative Council by the government.

After being charged with "subversion of state power," she remained calm. She read and wrote articles while in detention, and read newspapers and sang in court. She believes that the path of resistance is the common decision and commitment made by those who participated in the anti-amendment movement in 2019. The times have placed responsibilities on everyone. What she did was to "recognize the reality, but not avoid the cost." She once wrote an article at the police station: "I still want to believe that there are hundreds of thousands of people in Hong Kong who have understood the truth about Hong Kong and have not given up at all costs. I think I am not the one being encouraged. It is curious. "It's an object that can persist so much", but one of many people who persist."

Facing a possible sentence of several years in prison, she is still refusing bail conditions restricting her speech in court. She describes all of her choices as "unapologetic." Her Facebook profile always reads: "What's the point of freedom if it's not freedom in Hong Kong."

(The information in this article comes from public reports and special interviews by Hong Kong and international media that have paid attention to Hong Kong’s political system.)