Hong Kong Breaking: Student Leaders Joshua Wong, Lester Shum Arrested in Mong Kok Clearing

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Hong Kong Breaking: Student Leaders Joshua Wong, Lester Shum Arrested in Mong Kok Clearing
Hong Kong democracy protest leaders Joshua Wong (L) and Lester Shum (R) pose for a photo with a young girl, before fellow student leaders try to board a flight to Beijing, at Hong Kong's international airport on November 15, 2014. Three Hong Kong pro-democracy protest leaders were unable to leave the city for a planned trip to Beijing in hopes of bringing their demands for political reform to Chinese authorities. Alex Ogle/AFP/Getty Images
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Updated on Wednesday, Nov. 26 3:20 p.m. EST with quotes from Joshua Wong and Lester Shum after the photos.

Prominent student leaders Joshua Wong and Lester Shum have been arrested in police clearing of Mong Kok on Wednesday, Nov. 26 Hong Kong time. 

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Post by 新報人.

The arrests were made by Hong Kong Police Tactical Officers (PTU) at about 10:20 a.m. (9:20 a.m. EST) at the barricades between Argyle Street and Dundas Street on Nathan Road.

PTU officers clad in blue jumpsuits entered the site and started making arrests after protesters refused to clear the area following numerous announcements by the bailiffs and police.

Joshua Wong, convener of the student organization Scholarism, and Lester Shum, the deputy secretary general of the Hong Kong Federation of Students (HFKS) were at the forefront of the protesters and were promptly arrested under the charge of “contempt of court” and taken to Kwai Chung police station.

In a Twitter post, Wong mentioned that Chinese University’s Student Union member Jason Szeto Tze-long and League of Social Democrats Raphael Wong Ho-ming have also been arrested.

Larry Ong
Larry Ong
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Larry Ong is a New York-based journalist with Epoch Times. He writes about China and Hong Kong. He is also a graduate of the National University of Singapore, where he read history.
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