The Imprisonment of Occupy Student Leaders

Introduction On 17 August 2017, three prominent Occupy leaders, Alex Chow Yong‑kang, Nathan Law Kwun-chung, and Joshua Wong Chi‑fung, were found guilty of unlawful assembly and handed prison sentences of six to eight months for storming Civic Square (the government headquarters) on 26 September 2014...

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Published in:China perspectives 2017-10 (4), p.59-62
Main Author: Yu, Ting-Fai
Format: Article
Language:English
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Activists
Civil society
Community service
Community service orders
Courts
Criminal law
Criminal sentences
Culture
Debates
Democracy
Demonstrations & protests
Head offices
Imprisonment
Independence
Judges & magistrates
Judicial reviews
Judiciary
Political activism
Political prisoners
Prisons
Rule of law
Society
Sovereignty
Tin
Trials
Unlawful
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Summary:Introduction On 17 August 2017, three prominent Occupy leaders, Alex Chow Yong‑kang, Nathan Law Kwun-chung, and Joshua Wong Chi‑fung, were found guilty of unlawful assembly and handed prison sentences of six to eight months for storming Civic Square (the government headquarters) on 26 September 2014, setting off a series of sit-in protests over the next 79 days that configured into the Umbrella Movement (see, e.g. Kwok and Chan 2017; Ng 2016). In an earlier trial at the Eastern Magistrates’ C...
ISSN:2070-3449
1996-4617
DOI:10.4000/chinaperspectives.7490