Hong Kong Activist Joshua Wong Detained in Thailand

He was due to address a student audience on his experience as a democracy campaigner. Joshua Wong, the 19-year-old Hong Kong student activist who became an icon of the city’s 2014 pro-democracy protests, was detained in Thailand early Wednesday. He had been invited to speak at the country’s top university at an event commemorating the anniversary of a massacre of Thai student activists in 1976. Demosistō, the political party founded by Wong and his allies, said in a statement that it had been unable to reach him after his flight had landed Tuesday night at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi airport.

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