Hong Kong bans activist Joshua Wong from local elections
Wong says his disqualification — on the grounds that advocacy of Hong Kong’s self-determination violates electoral laws — is ‘political censorship’
29 October 2019 - 10:58
Hong Kong — Hong Kong's government disqualified prominent pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong from upcoming district elections on Tuesday, a move likely to sow further discord in a city hit by five months of antigovernment unrest.
Wong, who was 17 when he became the face of the 2014 student-led Umbrella Movement, has not been a prominent figure in the current antigovernment protests, which are largely leaderless, in the Chinese-ruled city...
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