Demosisto Chairman Ivan Lam had also been invited to observe January elections
Taiwan News
Date: 2019/12/20
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer\
Agnes Chow (left) and Joshua Wong. (AP photo)
The Demosisto secretary general was slapped with a travel ban after he was arrested over a June 21 siege of police headquarters during protests against the extradition law. The authorities later also barred him from running in the November 24 local elections, which turned into a triumph for the supporters of more democracy.
On Thursday, Wong visited the Eastern Law Courts to file another appeal against the travel ban, mentioning he had been invited to observe Taiwan’s presidential and legislative elections in January and to speak at an Oxford Union event at Oxford University in Great Britain the following month.
Demosisto Chairman Ivan Lam (林朗彥) said he was also planning to travel to Taiwan, while activist Agnes Chow (周庭) told the court several universities in Japan had invited her to speak, but the judge turned all appeals down, the Central News Agency reported. [FULL STORY]