Joshua Wong Chi-fung is a Hong Kong student activist and politician. He served as secretary-general of the pro-democracy party Demosistō until it disbanded following the implementation of the Hong Kong national security law on 30 June 2020. Wong rose to international prominence during the 2014 Hong Kong protests, and his pivotal role in the Umbrella Movement resulted in his inclusion in TIME magazine’s Most Influential Teens of 2014. He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017.
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Joshua Wong Chi-fung is a Hong Kong student activist and politician. He served as secretary-general of the pro-democracy party Demosistō until it disbanded following the implementation of the Hong Kong national security law on 30 June 2020. Wong first rose to international prominence during the 2014 Hong Kong protests, and his pivotal role in the Umbrella Movement resulted in his inclusion in TIME magazine’s Most Influential Teens of 2014. He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017. In August 2017, Wong and two other democracy activists were convicted and jailed for their roles in the occupation of Civic Square at the incipient stage of the 2014 Occupy Central protests. In January 2018, Wong was jailed again for failing to comply with a court order for clearance of the Mong Kok protest site. In June 2020, he announced he would be running for a Legislative Council seat in the upcoming election, and officially applied on 20 July 2020, before his nomination was invalidated on 30 July 2020 along with that of 11 other pro- democracy figures. Wong was born in Hong Kong on 13 October 1996, and was diagnosed with dyslexia in early childhood. He is the son of middle-class couple Grace and Roger Wong, and raised as a Protestant Christian in the Lutheran tradition. Wong studied at the United Christian College in Kowloon, and developed organisational and speaking skills through involvement in church groups. On 29 May 2011, he and schoolmate Ivan Lam Long-yin established Scholarism, a student activist group. The group began with simple means of protest, such as the distribution of leaflets against the newly announced moral and national education curriculum.
In time, however, Wong’s group grew in both size and influence, and in 2012 managed to organise a political rally attended by over 100,000 people. Wong received widespread attention as the group’s convenor. He also played a major role in persuading US politicians to pass theHong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act during the 2019–20 Hong Kong protester protests. His group strongly advocated for the inclusion of civic nomination in the 2017 Hong Kong Chief Executive election. Wong as a student leader started a class boycott among Hong Kong’s students to send a pro-democracy message to Beijing. During the protests, Wong stated: If Leung can accept our demands… movement will naturally come to an end. Unlike fellow protesters, he was released by police, after 46 hours in custody. Wong subsequently pursued undergraduate studies at the Open University of Hong Kong, having enrolled in a bachelor’s degree in political studies and public administration. His social awareness stems from his father, a retired IT professional, who was a convener of a local anti-gay marriage initiative, and often took him as a child to visit the underprivileged. He has reportedly remained a student as of 2019. His lawyer described the charge as politically motivated as he tried to injure his groin as he was arrested, and claimed that police tried to beat him and try to injure him as part of the bail conditions.
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