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Hong Kong's pro-democracy books suspended from lending
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Hong Kong, July 5 (ANI): The pro-China Carrie Lam government has started implementing the national security law to quash dissent as after banning the annual pro-democracy march in Hong Kong, the government in its latest move has started suspending the lending of several books written by p
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Joshua Wong, other leaders of Hong Kong pro-democracy group step down as s
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Hong Kong, June 30 (ANI): Hours after Beijing passed the controversial national security legislation for Hong Kong, activists Joshua Wong, Nathan Law, Jeffrey Ngo and Agnes Chow step-down from the pro-democracy group Demosisto on Tuesday morning.
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National security law will spark fresh protests in Hong Kong: Activist Jos
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Hong Kong, June 20 (ANI): As China is all set to enact the controversial Hong Kong security law, activist Joshua Wong has said that the new legislation will spark a new round of protests in the semi-autonomous city, saying that Hongkongers are prepared to fight to protect the "vanishing free
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Security law a new weapon to rip out all democratic aspirations in Hong Ko
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Hong Kong, June 20 (ANI): Turning a deaf ear to concerns raised by foreign governments, China is moving swiftly to enact the 'draconian' national security law to bring Hong Kong, a semi-autonomous city, under its direct control.
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Frustrated China now accuses Hong Kong activists of brainwashing young stu
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Hong Kong, June 15 (ANI): As part of China's strategy to clamp down the year-long pro-democracy protests and impose the national security law in Hong Kong, Beijing has now accused the activists of brainwashing the young students.
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Hong Kongers confronting 'largest, retiring regime' in the world: Activist
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Hong Kong, June 9 (ANI): Signalling the "comeback" of "labour strike and mass mobilisation" in Hong Kong against mainland China over the draconian national security law, pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong said the people of the financial hub of Asia are standing against the "largest and reti
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Hong Kong: Thousands of protestors gather to mark 5th anniversary of Umbre
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Hong Kong, Sept 28 (ANI): Thousands of protestors on Saturday gathered here to mark the fifth anniversary of Umbrella Revolution.
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Joshua Wong in US to seek support for Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Sep 14 (ANI): Joshua Wong, one of the most visible leaders of the Hong Kong protest movement, along with other protest leaders, has arrived in the United States to seek support for the city's widening pro-democracy protests that have crippled parts of the Asian financi
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Leading Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong arrested
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Hong Kong, Aug 30 (ANI): Leading pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong was arrested by Hong Kong police on Friday morning, his political organisation Demosisto said, ahead of another week of planned protests in the semi-autonomous region.
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Hong Kong: Pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong released from jail
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Hong Kong, June 17 (ANI): Joshua Wong, a pro-democracy activist in Hong Kong, was freed from prison on Monday, a day after authorities said around two billion protesters took to streets to march against a controversial bill that would send criminal suspects to mainland China for persecution.
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Communism slowly chokes Hong Kong
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Hong Kong [China], Oct 4 (ANI): Hong Kong was handed back to China in 1997 on the premise of the "one country, two systems" framework. However, there is growing frustration in the former British colony as that policy inexorably heads towards "one country, one system".
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Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement activist convicted for protesting
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Beijing, July 21 (ANI): A Hong Kong court on Thursday convicted Joshua Wong, the teenage activist who was one of the most recognisable faces of the city's umbrella movement protests, guilty of "illegal assembly" in the former British colony.
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