Defending My Home: An Insider’s View Of the Hong Kong Protest

Jan Jekielek

Senior Editor

Jan Jekielek is a senior editor with The Epoch Times, host of the show “American Thought Leaders.” Jan’s career has spanned academia, international human rights work, and now for almost two decades, media. He has interviewed nearly a thousand thought leaders on camera, and specializes in long-form discussions challenging the grand narratives of our time. He’s also an award-winning documentary filmmaker, producing “The Unseen Crisis,” “DeSantis: Florida vs. Lockdowns,” and “Finding Manny.”

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December 14, 2019Updated: December 24, 2019

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How exactly does an apolitical young Hong Konger end up on the front lines of the Hong Kong protests?

How did he lose his faith in the Hong Kong police, which he had always held in high regard?

What is it like actually facing off against riot police? And why is he determined to stay the course?

This is American Thought Leaders ??, and I’m Jan Jekielek.

In this episode—part of our special series “Voices of Hong Kong”—we’ll sit down with a Hong Kong front line protester nicknamed “Little Driver,” who was at Prince Edward station on August 31st when anti-riot police attacked and hit both protestors and non-protestors, by many accounts, indiscriminately. He shares about why he started protesting and what motivates him to keep going day after day.

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