Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong ‘can’t help but laugh’ after learning of record turnout for protest march against his jailing
Student leader’s father, Roger Wong, hits out at Chief Executive Carrie Lam, saying she can’t understand how mothers of imprisoned trio feel because her sons went to Cambridge
Political activist Joshua Wong Chi-fung laughed in his prison cell, saying he was proud of Hongkongers after learning that tens of thousands of residents marched on Sunday in support of him and other recently imprisoned protesters, according to his party, Demosisto.
The elder Wong suggested that Lam would not understand how the mothers felt because her children had been “educated at Cambridge”.
Demosisto chairman Nathan Law Kwun-chung, the party’s secretary-general Joshua Wong and non-affiliated activist Alex Chow Yong-kang were jailed by the Court of Appeal last week for storming the government headquarters in September 2014 in the run-up to the Occupy protests, in which they played a leading role.
The trio was originally given community service orders or a suspended jail term, but the justice department filed for a sentencing review and succeeded in obtaining a stiffer penalty, with the trio being jailed for six to eight months.
Two student activists jailed along with Joshua Wong in Hong Kong moved to separate prisons
According to a message released by Demosisto, Joshua Wong said that when he heard on the radio on Monday morning that the turnout for the march on Sunday had hit a record high since the umbrella movement, he “couldn’t help but laugh in bed”.