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Strike against the democratic movement in Hong Kong: activist Joshua Wong was arrested. It was seen as the face of the protests in the Asian state.
Well-known Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong was arrested by police on Thursday. That came from a message on his Twitter account. The 23-year-old showed up at a police station and was arrested there for participating in an unauthorized gathering on October 5 last year. According to the statement, he was also accused of violating the then-current masking ban during protests in Hong Kong.
#BREAK Joshua is arrested when he shows up at the central police station around 1:00 pm today. The arrest is related to participation in an unauthorized assembly on October 5 of last year. He is told that he also violated the draconian law against masks.
– Joshua Wong 黄 之 锋 😷 (@joshuawongcf) September 24, 2020
China passed a highly controversial Hong Kong security law in late June. It is directed against activities that China considers subversive, separatist or terrorist. It is the most extensive invasion of Hong Kong’s autonomy to date, and it gives vast powers to China’s state security. Hong Kong’s democratic opposition believes the law will attack them. Several known supporters of the protest movement had already been arrested a few weeks ago and later released on bail. Other prominent supporters of the democracy movement have left Hong Kong as a precaution.
Last year there were huge protests in the China Special Administrative Region against the growing influence of Beijing. Since the return of the former British crown colony to China in 1997, Hong Kong has governed itself autonomously with its own civil rights. From the point of view of critics, the State Security Law marks the end of the principle of “one country, two systems” that has been in place since 1997.
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