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Badiucao (巴丢草): Joshua Wong Detained in Thailand

In his most recent cartoon for CDT, Badiucao honors Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong, who was recently detained by Thai authorities at the Bangkok airport on his way to talk to college students in the city. Wong, age 19, was a leading voice in the 2014 Umbrella Movement protests, which called for free elections to select Hong Kong’s chief executive and other democratic reforms. Wong and several fellow protest leaders were found guilty of “illegal assembly” by