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Joshua Wong, face of Hong Kong protests, arrested over 2019 illegal assembly

By Haley Victory Smith
Published September 24, 2020 4:57pm ET
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Joshua Wong, face of Hong Kong protests, arrested over 2019 illegal assembly
Joshua Wong, the face of the Hong Kong protest movement, was arrested on Thursday over an assembly last year deemed illegal by authorities. Wong, 23, was released on bail a few hours after being detained during a routine visit to a Hong Kong police station. The pro-democracy activist is required to show up to this […]

Joshua Wong, the face of the Hong Kong protest movement, was arrested on Thursday over an assembly last year deemed illegal by authorities.

Wong, 23, was released on bail a few hours after being detained during a routine visit to a Hong Kong police station. The pro-democracy activist is required to show up to this station twice a week as a condition of his bail related to previous charges.

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