Jailed HK pro-democracy activists released on bail


Student pro-democracy activists Nathan Law (right) and Joshua Wong (left) speaking to the media outside Hong Kong’s High Court on August 17. Wong and Law were released on bail today pending an appeal against sentences handed down for their role in the 2014 Umbrella Movement protests. – EPA pic, October 24, 2017.

JAILED Hong Kong democracy activists Joshua Wong and Nathan Law were released on bail today pending an appeal against sentences handed down for their role in the 2014 Umbrella Movement protests. 

A defiant Wong said the activists stood ready to face what he called “suppression by an authoritarian regime” as he stood alongside Law outside the Court of Final Appeal following the decision.


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