{"id":43991,"date":"2014-12-06T20:09:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-06T20:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=43991 "},"modified":"2014-12-06T20:09:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-06T20:09:00","slug":"43991-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=43991","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong protest leader, Joshua Wong, ends hunger strike"},"content":{"rendered":"
6 December 2014 Last updated at 08:37 ET<\/div>
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Joshua Wong appeared in a wheelchair, looking weak, during his hunger strike<\/div>
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Joshua Wong, the teenage student who became an icon of Hong Kong’s protests for greater democracy, has ended a hunger strike after four days.<\/div>
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Mr Wong said he was halting his 108-hour strike on the advice of a doctor.<\/div>
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However, he said the protesters’ fight would go on. Three other students are still refusing food.<\/div>
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The protests – which began two months ago – are calling for China to drop restrictions on the 2017 election of Hong Kong’s next leader.<\/div>
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The demonstrations, spearheaded by the students, initially drew tens of thousands of people onto the streets.<\/div>
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Recently the numbers have been much smaller. Only two protest camps remain in the centre of the city, after a third one was dismantled by police last Sunday.<\/div>
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Mr Wong and fellow students began an “indefinite” hunger strike on Monday, calling on the government to resume talks on electoral reform.<\/div>
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However, the government has refused to accede to the protesters’ demands.<\/div>
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“As a government, we won’t accept any illegal actions… or actions like a hunger strike to convince us to make concessions,” Hong Kong’s Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs, Raymond Tam, said.<\/div>
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Announcing the end of the strike on his Facebook page, Mr Wong said he felt “extreme physical discomfort, dizziness and weakness in the limbs”.<\/div>
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“Even if I stop the hunger strike, it doesn’t mean that the Hong Kong government can ignore our demands.”<\/div>
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China’s communist government insists that a loyalist committee must vet the leadership candidates for the 2017 election.<\/div>
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However, the protesters in semi-autonomous Hong Kong say this is un-democratic, and have called for a fully free vote.<\/div>
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