A former visual arts teacher who was struck off last April over posting pro-democracy political cartoons on social media has left Hong Kong. He cited pressure from the city’s Education Bureau and criticism from Beijing-backed media. The pro-democracy cartoonist known as “vawongsir” announced his departure from Hong Kong on Saturday night, with a drawing of a man and a suitcase shared on his Facebook page and Instagram account. Wong began by saying “sorry,” and said his relatives had asked why he had remained in the city after several cartoonists had left Hong Kong. While he “did not know where…

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