Factbox: Who is Joshua Wong, the Hong Kong activist jailed for a 2019 protest?


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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Joshua Wong, 24, one of Hong Kong's most prominent democracy activists, was jailed on Wednesday for 13-1/2 months after pleading guilty to charges of organising and inciting an unlawful assembly during last year's anti-government protests. WHO IS JOSHUA WONG? Wong rose to international prominence as one of the leaders of Hong Kong's 2014 student-led Umbrella democracy protests, in which roads in the heart of the financial centre were blocked for 79 days. Two years earlier at the age of 15, and with the help of secondary school activists who formed a group called Scholarism, he forced...