Hong Kong Student Protest Leader Faces New Charges

Hong Kong police charged teenage student leader Joshua Wong on Thursday for his role last year in storming government headquarters, which helped trigger 79 days of pro-democracy street occupations that gripped the Asian financial center. Wong, whose Scholarism group played a key role in the protests, reported to a police station where he was charged with inciting and participating in an illegal assembly. The charges came nearly a year after Wong and dozens of student activists stormed...

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