Joshua Wong

January 10, 2024
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Joshua Wong
Full Name Joshua Wong
Occupation Pupil
Date Of Birth Oct 13, 1996(1996-10-13)
Age 28
Country Hong Kong
Horoscope Libra

Joshua Wong Biography

Name Joshua Wong
Birthday Oct 13
Birth Year 1996
Birth Country Hong Kong
Birth Sign Libra
Parents Roger Wong, Grace Wong

Joshua Wong is one of the most popular and richest Pupil who was born on October 13, 1996 in Hong Kong. Joshua Wong was born in Hong Kong on 13 October 1996. He discovered he had dyslexia during the early years of his life. A middle-class family, Grace Wong and Roger Wong, Wong was raised as an evangelical Christian within his Lutheran tradition. His social sensitivity comes from his father, who was a retired IT professional who was the convener of an initiative to stop gay marriage in the area and frequently took the young boy to the most disadvantaged.

On May 29, 2011 Wong and his classmate Ivan Lam Long-yin formed Scholarism an activist group for students. group. The group started with a basic ways of protest like passing out flyers in opposition to the new Moral and National Education (MNE). As time passed the group of Wong grew in size and influence and was able to organize a rally for political causes with over 100,000 attendees. Wong was widely praised as the group’s chief convener.

On 2 December 2014, Wong and two other students began an indefinite hunger strike to demand renewed talks with the Hong Kong government. He decided to end the hunger strike after four days on medical advice.

After Wong’s appearance at Kowloon City Magistrates’ Court on 27 November 2014, he was pelted with eggs by two assailants. They were arrested and each fined $3,000 in August 2015, sentences which, on application for review by the prosection, were subsequently enhanced to two weeks’ imprisonment.

In the same month, a report appeared on The Pro-Beijing publication Wen Wei Po alleging that Wong was in contact with the US consul general in Hong Kong Stephen M. Young in the course of his visit in the year 2011. The article implied that Wong had connections to an organization called the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States, which had claimed to have offered him military training from an army of the US Army. Wong said that the allegations were purely fake in that they were “more like jokes.”

Joshua Wong Net Worth

Net Worth $5 Million
Source Of Income Pupil
House Living in own house.

Joshua Wong is one of the richest Pupil from Hong Kong. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Joshua Wong 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Joshua Wong Chi-fung (Chinese: Huang Zhi Feng ; Cantonese Yale: Wohng Jifung , born 13th October 1997) is a Hong Kong student activist and politician, who is secretary-general of the pro-democracy group Demosisto. Wong was the convenor and the founder of the Hong Kong student activist group Scholarism. Wong gained international attention in this year’s Hong Kong protests, and his part within his role in the Umbrella Movement resulted in his inclusion in TIME magazine’s list of the Most Influential Teens of 2014 as well as a nominations for their 2013 Person of the Year. He was also named as one of the “world’s greatest leaders” by Fortune magazine in 2015, and was nominated in Nobel Peace Prize in 2017. Nobel Peace Prize in 2017.

The anti-high speed rail demonstrations marked the first of many political protests at which Wong was a participant.

Wong was sentenced to two months of prison on May 16, 2019, for his involvement in events on 26 November 2014 in Mong Kok, an area in Hong Kong, where demonstrators opposed the police during the Umbrella revolution.

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On 19 August 2015, Wong was formally charged by the Hong Kong Department of Justice with inciting other people to join an unlawful assembly and also joining an unlawful assembly, alongside Alex Chow, the former leader of the Hong Kong Federation of Students.

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Wong was denied entry into Malaysia at Penang International Airport, on 26 May 2015, on the basis that he was considered “a threat to Malaysia’s ties with China”, largely due to his supposed “anti-China” stance in participating in the 2014 Hong Kong protests.

What happened to Joshua Wong?

On 13 April 2021 Wong was sentenced to four months in jail for unauthorised assembly and violating an anti-mask law. On 6 May 2021, the Hong Kong District Court sentenced Wong to ten more months in prison for participating in an unauthorised assembly to mark the 2020 anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.

Where is Agnes Chow now?

On 31 December 2020, local media reported that Chow had been transferred to the maximum-security Tai Lam Centre for Women (where she was previously remanded), after she was classified as a Category A prisoner. On 12 June 2021, Chow was released from prison after serving her 6-months sentence.

Where is Nathan law now?

Following the enactment of the National Security Law on 1 July 2020, Law left for London, United Kingdom and began his self-exile. In April 2021 he was granted political asylum.

When was Joshua Wong born?

October 13, 1996 (age 25 years)

How long was the umbrella movement?

Symbol commonly used by the movement
Date28 September – 15 December 2014 (79 days)
Also known as| Occupy Central Movement
Cause| China’s decision to rule out full universal suffrage in Hong Kong
Organised by| Civil Disobedience Movement

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