Hong Kong judge to rule on banning Hong Kong protest song
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A judge in Hong Kong said on Friday that he will rule next week on a song that was popular during anti-government protests in the city in 2019.
The government wants the pro-democracy song banned from the internet and wants access to the song restricted.
The pro-democracy song Glory to Hong Kong was mistakenly played at international sporting events instead of China’s national anthem, March of the Volunteers.
Critics have warned that restricting the song would be another example of the curtailment of freedoms in Hong Kong, a former British colony.
Hong Kong was returned to Chinese rule in 1997. Since then, China has slowly chipped away at the former colony’s freedoms through a Beijing-imposed national security law and political changes.