Joshua Wong: 19-year-old Christian activist taking on the Chinese government
Joshua Wong is 19 years old. A committed Christian, he last year found himself at the centre of the Umbrella Movement, when tens of thousands of people occupied the streets of Hong Kong in protest at Beijing's grip on the city's electoral system.
Next week, he could be sentenced to five years in jail.
The university student and founder of Scholarism, a pro-democracy activist group, mobilised thousands of his peers to demonstrate against the Chinese government's insistence on screening political candidates in Hong Kong to ensure their allegiance to the Communist party.
It had been hoped that open elections would be held in the city in 2017, but a motion ruling against it was passed last August. The move caused outrage; it was considered by many to contradict Beijing's promise to one day allow Hong Kong universal suffrage; a pledge it had made to the UK before the city was given back to...