Leaving Hong Kong: The young activists going into exile 

congratulations to Mui Mui, for being able to leave. may God bless you, and wish you safety and happiness in UK.

What a Shame! HK is a paradise compared to many countries. Unfortunately, she has to find out the hard way.

Let’s be honest, Malcolm was never on the “front lines”.

In the early days of my country, there were many misguided youths who were manipulated by CIA but calling themselves activists. They were let go to other countries who championed for their human rights. Once they were in foreign shores, support for them from instigators dried up because they couldn't be used as pawns anymore. In the meantime my country prospered. Now they want to come home when times are good. But who wants them?.

15 years old and already making terrible decisions in life. I wonder how she's going to make it past adulthood.

A teenager have enough to purchase a ticket and get into a nation without anything? Am I watching a Bollywood movie

Thanks, France 24 English. Looks like you invested a lot to bring us this quality, 16+ minute report. Much appreciated!

Oh, by the way, what's happened to those protesters in France?

This video is helping Chinese government, there are more reasons for China to take full control of Hong Kong, because those people are promoting Hong Kong independence.

For this girl to travel does she not need written and notarized Permission to Travel Letter from both birth parents.

We are good in Hongkong , life here.better.

Let’s see how she feels after the honeymoon period

Every government has national security law. Hong Kong is no exception.

Do you know what fears the Chinese people? It is you don’t have any support if you flew to other country. When I was studying in Australia, I don’t see people were really nice to me when I need help. Instead, I saw some Australian young men abuse the trust from Chinese.

Dumb things happened to dumb people

Utterly poor act of these youngsters, been brained wash and end up hurting themselves and their love ones. Sad to see these youngsters end up like this.

This is child trafficking. Wtf!

Still so young. Never realised the difficult when you have no one to turn to at the different country.

Oh my goodness me, the girl is only 15 years old. She is waaaay too young to live independently. Since she is only 15, she will be placed in with a foster carer!!

Hope she don't get any racism, or hate crime over there.

It will be very interesting to see how much more freedom and human rights these HKers will enjoy in the new places in the West. The chances are, not much since they still need to abide by the local laws except for the fact they can criticize the government in HK and China more. Try to make comments (and even better act on them) about the western system and the government in their locality the same way they did in HK and see what happens. Sedition, insurrection and any forms of violence are not only illegal, but would also be dealt with a lot more harshly (with bullets if tear gas is enough) in both US and UK.

She won’t be of much use to Uncle NED in UK, no longer a pawn to disrupt China…🤗

Don't let the door hit you on your way out.

This just glorifies a situation where youngsters who MAY not completely understand what they are doing are held as Martyrs... I don't stand on either side in this debate however from speaking to friends who protested, not intending to be the devils advocate here but many who were 18+ themselves didn't even understand what they were doing, rather many of them were just chanting after what they heard instead of fully understanding what they stood for. Other friends who were pro-government sometimes did not understand the situation either. Many accepted Hong Kong as part of China and there was definitely a level of unacceptable and unprofessional police brutality. IDK, I feel like minors who travel seeking asylum should not be given it so easily rather there should be some level of assessment to determine the urgency of each individual's situation... In my opinion, I don't think she would have been prosecuted if she hadn't partaken in this interview. Her only offence (on record) was the distribution of flyers that advocated anti-government ideas until she did this interview. To me she doesn't seem to understand in full her decision, rather she is guided by fear (which is reasonable) as well as the desire to become a martyr of sorts (which is more characteristic of a teenager wanting to make something of themselves). ***This is only my opinion as I myself used to have anti-china views which were motivated by the fact that my peers were anti-china without fully understanding why. To me, she seems to be going through the same...

Hurray hurray. Peace in HK

As a Brit I welcome all Hong Kongers to the U.K.. I’m sorry you felt you had to leave your homeland but rest assured you can protest freely in the U.K. to free HK and the CCP can’t do a thing about it. Good luck. 🍀

Good bye ,now hong kong peacefully with motherland 😀👍

It is sad and ironic that she don’t realise that she is flying to a country which have even more draconian national security and sedition laws and if she did in the UK what she did in HK ( as in arson and sedition), she would be in jail for a very long time. Hate the sanctimony from these journalists as if France didn’t have the same laws. Yellow vest?

If you dig deeper, you'll find most young hong kongers leave for economic reasons (lack of jobs, housing, etc), not for political reasons, althou they are encourage to say that. Also the convicted rioters are leaving to avoid prosecution. Think about it, would u leave your country over passage of an extradition law, (which most countries, including US & UK aleady have) ?

I hope she is doing ok. At this age, she gone through a lot.

These kids are like misguided roses. If they are sincere in their cause, they should not fear going in jail! Youve signed up for it.

At this point with all the drama going on in Hong Kong. I think Macau 🇲🇴 is a better place to be than Hong Kong.

They left not because due to facing with Beijing's tightening grip on their city but they flee to avoid one day they will be caught because of their crimes.... come on, this is what they really afraid of....many people know about that.

You can see how prejudicial Western media reports about Hong Kong. If those activists had done the same in the Western world, they would have been shot dead several times.

the young are the most easily manipulated

can add subtitiles?

fled HK is good for them and for HK people.

Glad to see they are out of HK, don’t come back anymore.

Wish her all the best.

Better for the trouble makers to leave HK and fighting for freedom in UK where the government would welcome trouble makers destroy public transits and financial facilities

15 years old! She can travel.on a plane by herself? 15 and she can travel by taxi and.get a plane ticket to Uk. She was only 13 or 14 when standing on frontline. At this age what does she knows about life and politics？

Give me a break. HK is better off without these rioters. They are migrants moving from an extremely rich metropolitan city to the poor countryside in UK. Sooner or later, they would find out that the grass is not greener the other side.

She is the one of thousand luckily can escaped as many many youngers can't leave, heart broken for them!

Can someone please do a video on how the new security laws in HK different from those of UK, France, US etc

At a tender age, the decision she has taken might just back fire.

This will make it a little bit easier to rent a place. Very nice.

BBC had reported that during the peak there are 3 million demonstrators but UK only irresponsibly took in a few...Now the courts in HK will have to try millions of cases per day, which is not happening currently.

No she is not leaving by herself. There is full TV coverage and script write up for her. We dont have any sympathy for the rioter that try to ruin HK.

Well, they only have themselves to blame! Since they don't even have " CAN DO ATTITUDE" what the hell are going to do in other countries? Any please remember don't even try to protest the way you do in hk because the British police won't be so nice like the Hong Kong police 😉

Good riddance.One wonders how much this very young girl knows about politics for her to become a political activist?it is more likely she is swayed more by other factors to leave than the political situation in HK which she probably has little clue about!

Should keep the track to the girl where she is now!

I feel terrible for all these young lost HK kids. Being colonized for 200 years and returned to their homeland I can understand they lost their sense of identify… however…. That is no reason to forget where you come from … and I want everyone to think about this … she was like 13-14 when she got into these protests… majority of these protestors are students and very young… i like how the West slowly banned ads for cigarettes but didnt ban propaganda from poisoning the youth of HK

Win win for everyone!

Great film quality, you guys had a crew following a 15 year old running away from home without her parents knowledge. I hope you got the story you wanted.

I just feel sorry for her parents to be honest .Maybe it's for the best she left and didn't entangle them in her mistakes.

I guess that their live will be more difficult as chinise in westerns countries

These people should go conquer one of the British islands to establish their HK regime.

Truly understanding the power to resist and desist

They will learn very soon the live in West, how hard is living in UK

If they want to leave, who say no? win win for both sides.

Desperation? what a joke. Becareful what you wish for...

how could interview a few people becomes MANY? lol. Narrative again. Give the actual number of those in exile or move to UK via bno ?

"France24" my friend's daughter aged 13 likes to escape too, can you arrange for her escape, please...............

27k ppl applied for a British Visa out of 7.5M ppl. The less then half of 1%. That's a trickle.

I feel bad for mui-mui and other hong kongers out there. I pray for her and others that have left hong kong that they find happiness in whatever country they go to.

she is 15 years old with fair skin and youthful appearance and long silky hair and someone paid for everything she needed to get to the other side of the planet alone. what can possibly happen next?

Even 1 years prison in China is better then fleeing to the UK with no chance to return home, especially if you are under age. I do feel sorry for them and hope they have some safe contact to others!!

You should call her parents , she is minor , what kind of journalism is this.....

France want to take in some too?

So their plans are living of donations. and not really getting a job

That good .that is democracy she has is own will .

Another runaway teenage gal. Mui Mui means little sister in Cantonese. Her British foster parents are right about her being too young to run away from family without even telling her parents.

15 years old do not get arrested in HK. How did HK immigration allow a 15 years travel alone without parental consent? It does not add up! Fake story?

My parents feel so annoying to see these HKers around the corner to be honest. I don’t think they are welcomed 🙈

Nobody forced you to leave your homeland. You brought it to yourself

Other youngster who do not commit any offence are still enjoying their school life.

U r leaving as you are a ciminal

Good luck for her. Hope she get a lot of support while she is in Britain. She is so young...

Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish. The future of HK is much brighter if more of you and your misguided ilk leave. Thank you to the UK and other countries for spending your tax payers money to take them in.

Wow, sob music. Please interview the young who decided to stay. And the overwhelming majority of families who have the right mind decided that Hong Kong is still the best place to be.

That good leaves hongkong . Good luck

I wish HongKong would prosper under Chinese rule (which it will no doubt) and see how these defectors have a miserable life in a foreign country that does not care about them

Many these people are trying to present themselves as merely as onlookers on the street happened to voice their political views to draw empathy and ongoing narratives justifying their actions, inter alia, hiding behind umbrella beating up people holding different views, rioting in shopping malls, or like what the Malcolm said doing whatever possible to fight the sovereignty. These people, most of them have no knowledge of the countries they emigrated to, no intention of merging to the community save their own hongkongers, could not speak the languages well, have no appreciation of the culture. Good luck over there, just please do not come back. We need builders, not rioters

Mui-Mui, a 15-year-old girl... Her story is anecdotal.... NOT Newsworthy of FRANCE 24.

She will regret her decision when she grow older.

Mm how does she support herself as a 15 yo

She will regret very soon

UK needs more marginalised, low paid and unskilled workers to exploit and Hong Kongers fit these requirements perfectly.

Interesting report. I love to see a follow up to this. :-)

I hope these ppl find inner peace and get on with their lives...about 100k have fled to the UK...they do not represent the majority of the 6m+ HK residents ...the protests brought HK to a standstill stopping the ability of many to live their lives and make a living....if the HK govt wanted to stop them leaving, they could have done, they didn’t ...i guess they exercised their freedom of choice to live elsewhere ... good luck

Tragedy, but I'd probably done the same if I were them.

If you make trouble you flee,don’t blame the govt.Anywhere in the world,if you make trouble the authority will come after you,where is this different?

It's called doing a runner

"Try anything way"? I am wondering that means violence. Is there national security law in France? What does police do in violence protest in Paris? Is there any innocent people burned, hurt or even killed in protest in France, just because these innocent people doesn't agree the action of protester?

young and naïve she thought this was a vacation...she will regret for leaving her home country

Glad to see this

All bno visa beneficiary owe you! you are brave!

Dont be damn stupid, the law is effective against the bad guys. For criminals or traitors the new law is awesome and nothing have to do for odinary Hongkongers. Every countries in the world have one except Hongkong but now Hongkong turns, but why have to wait this long!!! Hongkong people have been brain washing for decades by the colonial teaching & education system that spread hatred towards the mainland since childhood, does anyone know that? How about this channel? I wonder about Meng Wang Zhou in Canada, what is the underlaying law?

If there were no freedom in HK, how did a little girl awaiting trial had the freedom to travel overseas??? I don't get it. HK laws sucks or what?

Why is this video dubbed? Why can't you just include subtitles? It really takes away the authenticity and tradition of the language.