Joshua Wong

There has been ongoing protests in Hong Kong, China since June 2020. The reason for these protests is because of a bill that wanted to passed which would have allowed extraditions of fugitives to mainland China. Although Hong Kong is a part of China, it is separated as its own area and has it's own laws and justice system. By allowing this bill to take place, it would contradict the separate judicial systems and it was unwanted by the people because it could potentially undermine judicial independence and endanger dissidents. Joshua Wong was rose as a leader in these student led protests and voluntarily grouped activists together in order to argue against the government. He was jailed for political protests against the government already but was released last June. in December 2020 he received an additional 10 months for participating in an unauthorized protests in the government assembly's. Joshua has been consistently standing up for his rights as well as the rights of his fellow people. He has a determination to continue with activism and stated that he would do whatever it took to create a change. I chose to search Joshua and his actions because I was aware of the Hong Kong protests but did not know the reason for them and did not realize how Joshua and his friends played such a huge role in the ongoing protests