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The leader of the umbrella movement, Joshua Wong, was arrested today on charges of “illegal gathering” in 2019, Wong’s lawyer said.
Joshua was arrested while reporting to the Central District Police Station around 1:00 PM (12:00 PM in Hanoi). The arrest involved participating in an illegal gathering on October 5 of last year. He was also charged. it is a violation of the law against protesters wearing masks, “according to Joshua Wong’s official Twitter post.
Jonathan Man, Joshua Wong’s attorney, also later confirmed that Wong was arrested when he reported another case to the police. “Wong was accused of participating in illegal rallies when hundreds of people marched to protest the ban on wearing masks and masks issued by the authorities,” the lawyer said.
Last November, the Hong Kong Supreme Court ruled that it was unconstitutional to ban protesters from wearing masks, masks, or painting their faces.
The leader of the Hong Kong “umbrella” movement, Joshua Wong, told reporters in October 2019. Image: Reuters.
Wong became the leader of a student-led “umbrella” protest movement in 2014 to protest Beijing’s interference in the 2017 elections for the head of the Hong Kong special zone. The movement is called a protest. Participants carry “umbrellas” with umbrellas to protect themselves from rain, sun and tear gas.
Joshua Wong founded the Demosisto party in 2016 and said that one of the party’s goals was to claim self-determination for the Hong Kong special zone after 2047. This is the expiration of the China-UK Joint Declaration, which states that Hong Kong is entitled to maintain its own independent monetary and legal system from mainland China under the “One Country, Two Regimes” model for a period of 50 years from the date the special zone was granted. 1997.
However, Wong left Demosisto and the party disbanded in late June, hours after China passed Hong Kong’s security laws. Joshua Wong has expressed concern that they will be “attacked” when Hong Kong’s security law takes effect. Wong said journalists, human rights groups, NGOs and foreigners could also become targets of the new security law on charges of inciting to overthrow the government.
Hong Kong’s security law criminalizes four types of national security offenses, including separatism, subversion, terrorism, and collusion with foreign countries or outside parties to endanger security. Hong Kongers who break the law can be sentenced to life imprisonment; the right to prosecute and try “serious cases” belongs to the central government.
The Chinese government and the Hong Kong government claimed that the new security law reinforces the principle of “One country, two regimes” and addresses only a small group of people, while the rights and freedoms of the Hong Kong people also as the interests of foreign investors are still guaranteed. However, the United States and many European countries criticized this law, calling it destroying Hong Kong’s autonomy and freedom and undermining the “one country, two regimes” principle.
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