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30 Apr 2021

Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong pleads guilty 'illegal assembly'

Joshua Wong pleaded guilty in the District Court Wong was arrested in January on suspicion of breaking the new law, which was introduced in July 2020 Wong was already in prison after he was found guilty of participating and organising an unauthorised assembly during the mass 2019 pro-democracy protests

08 Jan 2021

China uses national security as excuse to violate basic human rights

50 pro-democracy politicians and campaigners were arrested in secretive early morning raids in Hong Kong. The activists that were arrested by the authorities held primaries in July 2020 to run and win a majority of seats in the Hong Kong election. The recent arrests have nearly doubled the number of people arrested under the NSL in Hong Kong.

02 Dec 2020

Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong jailed for 13-1/2 months for anti-govt protest

Joshua Wong, one of Hong Kong`s most prominent democracy activists, was jailed for 13-1/2 months. Wong was jailed for or his role in an unlawful anti-government rally in 2019. It the toughest and most high-profile sentencing of an opposition figure this year.

24 Sep 2020

Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong arrested for 2019 illegal assembly

Hong Kong police arrested prominent democracy activist Joshua Wong on Thursday for participating in an unauthorised assembly in October 2019 and violating the city`s anti-mask law. Wong`s latest arrest adds to several unlawful assembly charges or suspected offences he and other activists are facing related to last year`s pro-democracy protests. Hong Kong police confirmed they arrested two men, aged 23 and 74, on Thursday for illegal assembly on October 5, 2019.

10 Sep 2019

My town is the new Cold War's Berlin, says Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong

The 22-year-old activist, who was in Berlin for a newspaper-sponsored event at the German parliament celebrating human rights activists around the world, pledged that protests would not be lulled into complacency.

16 May 2019

Hong Kong democracy leader Joshua Wong sent back to jail

Joshua Wong, 22, was sentenced to three months in jail in January last year for disobeying a court order and not leaving a protest zone during the rallies that blocked major roads in the Chinese-ruled city for nearly three months.

20 Aug 2017

Crowds rally in Hong Kong after activists jailed

Protesters stayed on until the evening Sunday as campaigners addressed the crowds and messages of solidarity were projected onto the building of the Court of Final Appeal.

06 Jul 2017

Hong Kong student leaders say they won't contest Occupy protest charge

The Hong Kong protests that Wong and others helped drive represented one of the biggest populist challenges in decades to the leaders of China's Communist Party since the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement in Beijing.

29 Jun 2017

China's President Xi Jinping in landmark visit to Hong Kong

The three-day visit is Xi's first since becoming leader in 2013 and comes at a time when there are growing fears that Beijing is threatening semi-autonomous Hong Kong's freedoms.

05 Oct 2016

Hong Kong activist deported from Thailand `at China`s request`

Hong Kong democracy campaigner Joshua Wong returned home Wednesday after being deported from junta-run Thailand, where he was due at events commemorating a massacre of student activists, as he and his supporters blamed China for his detention.

05 Oct 2016

Thailand bars entry to teenage HK activist 'at China's request'

Thailand on Wednesday barred entry to a Hong Kong student activist who helped organise pro-democracy protests in the Chinese-ruled city in 2014.

05 Oct 2016

Hong Kong activist held in Thailand `at China`s request`

Hong Kong democracy campaigner Joshua Wong was stopped from entering junta-run Thailand, where he was due at events commemorating a massacre of student activists, an official said Wednesday, as supporters blamed China for his detention.

05 Sep 2016

Hong Kong pro-democracy candidates retain veto in key vote

A group of young Hong Kong pro-democracy activists pulled off a stunning election victory, gaining a foothold in the southern Chinese city's legislature and setting the stage for a new round of political confrontations with Beijing, official results showed on Monday.

21 Jul 2016

Hong Kong student leader Wong convicted for protests

Hong Kong student leader Joshua Wong was found guilty Thursday of participating in a protest that led to mass pro-democracy rallies, in a prosecution blasted as a "chilling warning" by rights campaigners.

06 Apr 2016

Hong Kong student leader says HSBC blocked new accounts

Hong Kong student leader Joshua Wong said Wednesday that the city`s HSBC branches had refused to open an account for his new party, accusing them of "political censorship".

29 Feb 2016

Hong Kong activists on trial over `Occupy` protests

Three pro-democracy activists went on trial in Hong Kong on Monday over charges relating to mass rallies in 2014, with the movement`s student leader accusing the government of "unreasonable" prosecution.

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