The Imprisonment of Occupy Student Leaders

Abstract

Introduction On 17 August 2017, three prominent Occupy leaders, Alex Chow Yong‑kang, Nathan Law Kwun-chung, and Joshua Wong Chi‑fung, were found guilty of unlawful assembly and handed prison sentences of six to eight months for storming Civic Square (the government headquarters) on 26 September 2014, setting off a series of sit-in protests over the next 79 days that configured into the Umbrella Movement (see, e.g. Kwok and Chan 2017; Ng 2016). In an earlier trial at the Eastern Magistrates’ C...