内容摘要：Today, Vision Bearerz grows vegetables, raises pigs and farms tilapia in a small pond. They sell a portion of what they produce, with revenue also coming from running a car wash and public toilet.

Today, Vision Bearerz grows vegetables, raises pigs and farms tilapia in a small pond. They sell a portion of what they produce, with revenue also coming from running a car wash and public toilet.

under a Beijing-imposed law.Sham’s activism made headlines during 2019 anti-government protests, when he was the convenor of a now-disbanded pro-democracy group that organized some of the biggest peaceful marches that year, including one that drew an estimated 2 million people.

Sham was among 47 activists arrested in 2021 for their roles in an. He was sentenced with 44 other activists last year afterthat their plans to effect change through the primary would have undermined the government’s authority and create a constitutional crisis. Only two of the original defendants were acquitted.

Even behind bars, Sham continued toregistered overseas at the city’s top court, which later ruled the government should provide a framework for recognizing same-sex partnerships. It was

for the city’s LGBTQ+ community.

“I feel happy. No matter whether there’s a change in (my) freedom, I am definitely freer compared to yesterday,” Sham told reporters Friday after he was reunited with his family. “But I also know many people are suffering. This makes me feel I shouldn’t be too happy.”Charles Mangwiro in Maputo, Mozambique, contributed to this story.

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for working with philanthropies, a list of supporters and funded coverage areas atMATHARE, Kenya (AP) — Joseph Kariaga and his friends once lived the “gangster life” in Nairobi’s Mathare slum, snatching phones, mugging people and battling police. But when Kariaga’s brother was shot dead by police, the young men took stock.