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"Glory to Hong Kong" (Chinese: 願榮光歸香港; Jyutping: jyun6 wing4 gwong1 gwai1 hoeng1 gong2; Cantonese Yale: Yuhn Wìhnggwōng Gwāi Hēunggóng) is a protest anthem that was composed and written by a musician under the pseudonym "Thomas dgx yhl", with the contribution of a group of Hongkonger netizens from the online forum LIHKG during ...
"Boundless Oceans, Vast Skies", a song by rock band Beyond, adopted as informal anthem during the 2014 Hong Kong protests [12] "Glory to Hong Kong", a protest song by "Thomas dgx yhl" and netizens on LIHKG that was widely popular during the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests, with some Hongkongers and supporters of democracy in Hong Kong ...
God Save the Queen (God Save the King from 1901 to 1941 and from 1945 to 1952), the national anthem of British Hong Kong before it became a Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China in 1997. Glory to Hong Kong, a protest song widely associated with the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests, viewed by many as an unofficial anthem.
Players of Hong Kong’s ice hockey team make a time-out gesture as the protest song ‘Glory to Hong Kong’ was played after their win against Iran, instead of the Chinese national anthem.
It was the first time a song has been banned in the city since Britain handed the territory back to Chinese rule in 1997. Critics have said prohibiting broadcast or distribution of the song further reduces freedom of expression since Beijing launched a crackdown in Hong Kong following the 2019 protests. They have also warned the ban might ...
A Hong Kong court will hand down a closely-watched decision over whether to ban the broadcast and distribution of “Glory to Hong Kong,” a protest song after the government asked it to do so in ...
The “Glory to Hong Kong” lyrics contain parts of the slogan and was therefore widely considered to be banned. Hong Kong wanted to prohibit anyone from “broadcasting, performing, printing ...
Under Article 9, willful alteration of the music or lyrics is criminally punishable by imprisonment of up to two years or up to 360 day-fines [37] [38] and, although both Chinese and Portuguese are official languages of the region, the provided sheet music has its lyrics only in Chinese. Mainland China has also passed a similar law in 2017. [39]