The former pro-democracy Hong Kong legislator Ted Hui, who is wanted by authorities in the Chinese city, has been granted asylum in Australia, he said in a social media post, calling on Canberra to do more for those who remain jailed.
The special administrative region, handed back to China by the UK in 1997, has seen dissent quashed since Beijing imposed a sweeping national security law following huge and at times violent pro-democracy protests that erupted in 2019.
Hui, a high-profile participant at the time who has since resettled in Adelaide where he works as a solicitor, said the Australian government had granted him a protection visa, with asylum also extending to his wife, children and parents.