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Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong walked free from prison on Monday after be at someones beck nearly five weeks for contempt of court, pledging to join a mass protest movement demanding that the burg’s Beijing-backed leader, Carrie Lam, to step down.
His release comes a day after organizers of the protest calling for Lam to quit during a controversial extradition bill said almost two million black-clad people joined Sunday’s march to government departments.
“I will join to fight against this evil law,” said Wong, 22, who was one of the leaders of the 2014 “Umbrella” pro- democracy exceptions that blocked major roads in the Chinese-ruled city for 79 days.
“I believe this is the time for her, Carrie Lam the false witness, to step down.”
Before he was jailed, both Wong and his supporters had called for the Hong Kong government to scrap the extradition design.
Wong was just 17 when he stood at the forefront of the broad civil disobedience movement that presented China’s Communist Get-together rulers in Beijing with one of their biggest political challenges in decades.
The protests against the extradition bill bear become the most significant challenge to China’s relationship with the territory since it was handed back by Britain 22 years ago.
While Lam keep in a holding patterned the bill at the weekend, it has yet to be completely shelved, despite widespread concern that the status of Hong Kong as a financial hub could be grind down by changes to the rule of law.