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WELT AM SONNTAG columnist Joshua Wong is in custody.
We demand that the authorities deal fairly and under the rule of law with the activist.
Joshua Wong has committed two criminal offenses: organizing an illegal gathering and inciting an illegal gathering.
Anyone who knows or observes the process more closely knows that it is a strategy of his defenders.
Another charge - attending an unauthorized meeting - was dropped for it.
There are now indications that the competent court will choose a path before the hearing on December 2, which is not a common one with the comparatively low allegations.
The judge hinted that Wong could disappear behind bars for months.
That would mean that the young people who fight for the freedom of their homeland against the overpowering enemy China will lose an important idol.
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It is a fight that Wong and his friends are fighting for themselves, for their homeland.
And also one that will affect the whole world.
We in Germany too.
Because the Chinese expansion is taking place at all levels: economically, for example in Italy, where investments are to be made in the ports of Trieste and Palermo as part of the “New Silk Road”.
And militarily, for example in the South China Sea, where China is now launching medium-range missiles.
A tough surveillance dictatorship that puts hundreds of thousands of people in labor camps is spreading around the world.
A young man who opposes her threatens to disappear behind bars for a very long time for little things.
Joshua Wong must have a fair trial, in the interests of the entire world.