“My lack of freedom today is a price I knew I would have to pay for the city I love.” Nigeria
Prominent Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong leaves after a press conference at the “Bundespressekonferenz”, on September 11, 2019 in Berlin. – Joshua Wong had met Germany’s Foreign minister the day before as he carried abroad his call to support the growing pro-democracy movement in the former British colony, a meeting slammed on by China as “disrespectful”.
Scrawny, with gaunt features and a studious frown, Wong has now taken his fight around the globe, recently meeting with politicians in Taiwan, holding talks in Berlin with the German foreign minister, and has speaking engagements scheduled in the United States. At the age of just 15, Wong campaigned successfully for Hong Kong to drop a pro-China “National Education” programme, rallying a crowd of 120,000 to blockade the city’s parliament for 10 days.
He was also convicted in a second case related to the storming of a government forecourt during the 2014 protests. Wong’s demands have been both consistent and fairly simple: that Hong Kongers should get to decide their city’s fate, not Communist Party officials in Beijing.
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