Vice-president of Google for South East Asia and India Rajan Anandan speaks during the launch of the Google 'Tez' mobile app for digital payments in New Delhi on September 18, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / SAJJAD HUSSAIN (Photo credit should read SAJJAD HUSSAIN/AFP/Getty Images)
Pro-democracy lawmakers attend a rally in front of Civic Square in support of Nathan Law, Leung Kwok-hung, also known as 'long hair', Lau Siu-lai and Edward Yiu Chung-yim (not pictured) in Hong Kong on July 14, 2017, after a verdict was handed down invalidating their oaths, taken on October 12 last year.
Four pro-democracy lawmakers were disqualified from Hong Kong's parliament on July 14 in a move that will worsen growing fears the city's freedoms are under serious threat from Beijing. / AFP PHOTO / ISAAC LAWRENCE (Photo credit should read ISAAC LAWRENCE/AFP/Getty Images)
A pro-democracy protester holds up placards featuring (L) Hong Kong's Chief Secretary for Administration Carrie Lam and Chief Executive Leung Chun-Ying during a rally in Hong Kong on December 11, 2016, against a crackdown on pro-democracy lawmakers and an electoral system skewed towards Beijing ahead of elections for a new city leader.
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(Front L-R) Members from the legal sector, including former lawmaker Audrey Eu, lawmaker Dennis Kwok, senior counsel Graham Harris, former lawmaker Martin Lee, senior counsel Gladys Li and solicitor John Clancey, join other lawyers and law students in a silent march in protest at a ruling by China which effectively bars two pro-independence legislators from taking office in Hong Kong on November 8, 2016.
Hundreds of lawyers and law students, all dressed in black, marched silently through Hong Kong on November 8 in protest at a ruling by China which effectively bars two pro-independence legislators from taking office. / AFP / Anthony WALLACE (Photo credit should read ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP/Getty Images)
TOPSHOT - Leung Kwok-hung (C) - known as "Long Hair" - of the League of Social Democrats shouts slogans and rips up the "831 ruling" before taking the Legislative Council Oath at the first meeting of the Sixth Legislative Council (Legco) in Hong Kong on October 12, 2016. / AFP / ANTHONY WALLACE (Photo credit should read ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP/Getty Images)
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A tank fires at Russian positions near Kreminna in the Lugansk region of Ukraine on Jan. 12. ANATOLII STEPANOV/AFP via Getty Images
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