Joshua Wong joins Hong Kong dissidents arrested for subversion
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published : 7 Jan 2021 at 13:45
10 Joshua Wong is one of the city s most recognisable democracy advocates and is currently serving a prison sentence.
HONG KONG: Jailed dissident Joshua Wong Thursday joined the ranks of Hong Kong democracy figures charged under a new security law, as the United States threatened fresh sanctions in response to Beijing s mounting crackdown in the finance hub.
More than 1,000 police officers detained 53 prominent figures including a US citizen in dawn raids Wednesday on charges of subversion , a new national security crime that carries up to life in prison.
Rafael Payare to head Montreal Symphony starting in 2022-23
by Ronald Blum, The Associated Press
Posted Jan 7, 2021 2:57 pm EDT
Last Updated Jan 7, 2021 at 2:58 pm EDT
Conductor Rafael Payare was hired Thursday as music director of the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal starting with the 2022-23 season.
A Venezuelan who turns 41 on Feb. 23, Payare follows the lengthy tenures of Montreal music directors Kent Nagano (2006-20) and Charles Dutoit (1977–02).
Payare trained with Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim and Lorin Maazel. Payare has been music director of the San Diego Symphony since 2019-20 and has a contract there through 2025-26.
Payare first conducted the Montreal orchestra in September 2018 in Schoenberg’s “Verklaerte Nacht,” Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 3 with concertmaster Andrew Wan and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3. Payare returned to the orchestra in July 2019.
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53 people were arrested yesterday on suspicion of subversion in Hong Kong
US human rights lawyer John Clancey was among those arrested yesterday
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo today threatened sanctions against individuals and organizations involved in the arrests