EU varnar: Situationen i Hongkong extremt oroande
EU:s utrikeschef Federica Mogherini varnar Hongkongs myndigheter för att EU noggrant övervakar utvecklingen i regionen efter att flera aktivister samt en politiker gripits, skriver AFP.
– Utvecklingen i Hongkong de senaste timmarna är extremt oroande, säger hon och tillägger:
– Vi förväntar oss att myndigheterna i Hongkong respekterar mötes-, uttrycks- och föreningsfriheten samt människors rätt att demonstrera fredligt.
Demonstrationerna inleddes som en reaktion mot ett lagförslag som skulle innebära att Hongkongbor kunde överlämnas till Fastlandskina.
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Joshua Wong
Wikipedia (en)
Joshua Wong Chi-fung (Chinese: 黃之鋒; Sidney Lau: Wong4 Ji1 Fung1, born 13 October 1996) is a Hong Kong student activist and politician who serves as secretary-general of pro-democracy party Demosistō. Wong was previously convenor and founder of the Hong Kong student activist group Scholarism. 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 and nomination for its 2014 Person of the Year; he was further called one of the "world's greatest leaders" by Fortune magazine in 2015,, and nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017.
In August 2017, Wong and two other pro-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 convicted and jailed again for failing to comply with a court order for clearance of the Mong Kok protest site during the Mong Kong protests in 2014.
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