'I want to listen to it more, now - I want to hear it again before it is taken off the shelves, or there is no way to listen to it any more - to commemorate the social events of that time,' May said. 'As a citizen, I feel very uneasy about this.' She said had downloaded the song in the past 24 hours.

'It is very unreasonable to ban the broadcast of 'Glory to Hong Kong',' said a Hong Kong resident who gave only the nickname May for fear of reprisals. The song calls for freedom and democracy rather than independence, but was nonetheless deemed in breach of the law due to its 'separatist' intent, officials and police officers said at the start of an ongoing citywide crackdown on public dissent and peaceful political activism. It was banned in 2020 as Beijing imposed a draconian national security law on the city. The anthem was regularly sung by crowds of unarmed protesters during the 2019 protest movement, which that ranged from peaceful demonstrations for full democracy to intermittent, pitched battles between “front-line” protesters and armed riot police. Hong Kong authorities sought a court injunction prohibiting the dissemination and performance of the banned protest anthem, “Glory to Hong Kong,” prompting downloads of the song to surge.

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