Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong was sentenced Wednesday to three months in prison for his role in massive protests in 2014, dealing another blow to the pro-democratic youth movement in this semi-autonomous region of China. Wong, 21, pleaded guilty to the charge of defying a court order to leave a demonstration site at the end of the mass democracy protests known as the Umbrella Movement, a 79-day occupation of the city demanding freer elections and greater political autonomy. “They can lock up our bodies, but they cannot lock up our minds,” Wong told reporters outside the High Court before the ruling was handed down. We will vote in prison in the March by-election.
Joshua Wong, Hong Kong’s Most Prominent Pro-democracy Activist, Has Been Jailed Again
Eli Meixler / Hong Kong, Time: World
Tue, 01/16/2018 - 10:10pm
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