Joshua Wong is charged with conspiring with foreign forces under the National Security Act and will be sentenced tomorrow (November 5). From the streets to the parliament, and then from the parliament to prison, the former leader of the student youth movement and his friends paid a heavy price. In 2018, Duan Media conducted in-depth interviews with a group of young people in Hong Kong - Joshua Wong, Luo Guankong, Zhou Ting, Lin Langyan and others. At the time, this fledgling political party, founded less than two years ago, was facing a total crisis: its seats were canceled, its candidates were banned from participating in the elections, and its core members were facing prison terms. So, this group of young people in their early 20s gathered, smiling for the camera and imagining the future: “What will happen in fifty years? " They teased that they would be called "Uncle Zhifeng" when they got older. They even laughed and imagined that Hong Kong would have the first democratically elected female CEO in several decades. Click the link to review this 2018 highlight and see the ambitions and struggles of this group of youngsters, and how they found their place under the pressure of the times.

Joshua Wong is charged with conspiring with foreign forces under the National Security Act and will be sentenced tomorrow (November 5). From the streets to the parliament, and then from the parliament to prison, the former leader of the student youth movement and his friends paid a heavy price. In 2018, Duan Media conducted in-depth interviews with a group of young people in Hong Kong - Joshua Wong, Luo Guankong, Zhou Ting, Lin Langyan and others. At the time, this fledgling political party, founded less than two years ago, was facing a total crisis: its seats were canceled, its candidates were banned from participating in the elections, and its core members were facing prison terms. So, this group of young people in their early 20s gathered, smiling for the camera and imagining the future: “What will happen in fifty years? " They teased that they would be called "Uncle Zhifeng" when they got older. They even laughed and imagined that Hong Kong would have the first democratically elected female CEO in several decades. Click the link to review this 2018 highlight and see the ambitions and struggles of this group of youngsters, and how they found their place under the pressure of the times.