Human Rights Lawyer Celebrates Year Free From Hong Kong Prison

Now in Washington, DC, he misses the city that is no longer his home, or the home of thousands who have left

By: Samuel Bickett

Samuel Bickett is a former corporate lawyer who was arrested in 2019 for allegedly interfering with a police officer who refused to identify himself and who was beating a youth who reportedly had jumped a turnstile. Bickett, an American, was ultimately sentenced to four months and two weeks in jail. The experience turned him into a hum…