HONG KONG - Activist Joshua Wong, who has become the face of Hong Kong’s push for full democracy, walked free from prison on Monday and vowed to join a mass protest movement demanding that the city’s Beijing-backed leader, Carrie Lam, steps down.
“I will join to fight against this evil law,” said Wong, 22, who was one of the leaders of the 2014 “Umbrella” pro-democracy protests that blocked major roads in Hong Kong for 79 days.Wong acknowledged he still had to fully grasp the scale of the crisis at a time when Chinese President Xi Jinping is grappling with a deepening U.S. trade war, an ebbing economy and regional strategic tension.
Even after her apology, Hong Kong opposition politicians are echoing marchers’ calls for both Lam and the law to go. While Lam delayed the bill, it has yet to be completely shelved, despite domestic and international fears that it could imperil the status of Hong Kong as a financial hub.“We cannot accept her apology, it doesn’t remove all our threats,” said social worker Brian Chau, one of several hundred protesters who stayed overnight in the Admiralty district around the government headquarters and legislature.
farahmaster MZaharia Wish we Americans, so blessed with freedom, could do more to help the Chinese who want to have freedom. Wish Obama cared to do more during the Arab Spring as well.
farahmaster MZaharia Probably the Lamb would be fored and an other pro- Chinese leader would be in stalled
farahmaster MZaharia Keep the pressure on them!
farahmaster MZaharia And they are free to make the peace, and will be punished for it. Don't forget that money is passing over the people who have been in prison.
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