{"id":5025,"date":"2016-07-22T16:23:50","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T08:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/07\/22\/hong-kong-umbrella-movement-student-leaders-found-guilty\/"},"modified":"2016-07-22T16:23:50","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T08:23:50","slug":"hong-kong-umbrella-movement-student-leaders-found-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/07\/22\/hong-kong-umbrella-movement-student-leaders-found-guilty\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong 'Umbrella Movement' student leaders found guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s a dark day for the student leaders of the Hong Kong pro-democracy protests in 2014 that came to be known as the “Umbrella Movement.”<\/p>\n

On Thursday, a court convicted Joshua Wong, Nathan Law and Alex Chow for unlawful assembly, for their role in starting the protests.<\/p>\n

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The convictions will only add to Hong Kong residents’ fears of the mainland Chinese government coming down on civil liberties the former British colony used to enjoy.<\/p>\n

In 2014, the trio led tens of thousands of demonstrators on a 79-day blockade, sitting in business districts in the busy port city. With major roads blocked, Hong Kong’s traffic and retail industries grounded to a halt, and things took a turn for violence when police eventually intervened after two months with tear gas and batons<\/a>. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

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