‘Freedom swimmers’ who made the treacherous journey from China to Hong Kong during the the Cultural Revolution, and police officers assigned to catch them, recall those dark days.
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It was about midnight when Poon Yuen-ching and her fiancé, Lo Ping-sum, stood at the edge of Deep Bay. Some 5km (3 miles) away, across the cold waters, the prospect of a married life in the British colony of Hong Kong awaited, free from the poverty and political turmoil wrought by China’s Cultural Revolution.
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