![FILE - In this May 16, 2019, file photo, Pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong speaks to media at a court in Hong Kong. Members of his Demosisto party say the Hong Kong activist Wong, a leading figure in the 2014 Umbrella Movement, is to be released from prison. Wong’s release from the Lai Chi Kok Correctional Facility comes as student demonstrators were facing off Monday, June 17, against police following a massive protest on Sunday. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)]({"default":{"load":"default","w":"80","h":"53","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AACZgK0.img?h=533&w=799&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=3000&y=1731"},"size3column":{"load":"default","w":"62","h":"42","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AACZgK0.img?h=417&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=3000&y=1731"},"size2column":{"load":"default","w":"62","h":"42","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AACZgK0.img?h=417&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=3000&y=1731"}})
He told waiting journalists he needed a bit of time but, “No matter what happens, I will join the protest soon.”
Wong, 22, served a two-month sentence for contempt related to his involvement in the 2014 protests advocating a more democratic elections process in the former British colony.
Wong’s sentence was reduced from three months because he was only a teenager when he was arrested.
The young activist won an appeal of a separate conviction and six-month sentence for unlawful assembly and released after spending more than two months in prison in that case.
The mostly young protesters still gathered near the government headquarters began moving off of downtown streets Monday morning after hours of haggling with police. They were streaming into an outdoor space near the city’s legislative chamber that had been closed off earlier in the morning. That enabled police to reopen roads that had been blocked since Sunday’s protest.
The latest protests were set off by an extradition bill that would have allowed criminal suspects to be sent to mainland China for trials. The legislation has been suspended, but the activists saw it as undermining legal rights and judicial independence.
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