Joshua Wong, pro-democracy activist in Hong Kong, arrested

by drbyos Activist Joshua Wong, one of the best known faces of the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong, was arrested on Thursday for ࢀœillegal gatheringࢀ during a demonstration in October 2019 in this semi-autonomous territory, informed his lawyer. Wong, 23, indicated on Twitter that he was accused of having violated ࢀœthe law that prohibited the use of a maskࢀ to hide the face, approved at that time by the local government to try to weaken the demonstrations and that it was later declared unconstitutional. .