{"id":47299,"date":"2015-05-26T22:31:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T22:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=47299 "},"modified":"2015-05-26T22:31:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T22:31:00","slug":"47299-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=47299","title":{"rendered":"China pressure suspected as Malaysia bars Hong Kong teen activist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Tue May 26, 2015 8:19am EDT<\/div><div><\/div><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mzzg.org\/UploadCenter\/ArticlePics\/2015\/21\/2015526download(1).jpg\" alt=\"2015526download(1).jpg (644&#215;429)\" \/><\/div><div>Student leader Joshua Wong is scolded by government supporters (L) during a promotional event on electoral reform in Hong Kong, China April 25, 2015.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>REUTERS\/TYRONE SIU<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Malaysia on Tuesday denied entry to a prominent teenage Hong Kong activist for a series of talks on democracy in China, raising concerns that Beijing may have put pressure on Kuala Lumpur.<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>Joshua Wong, 18, was one of the leaders of last year&#8217;s pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong that paralyzed key roads in the city for 79 days and presented China&#8217;s Communist Party leadership with one of its biggest political challenges in decades.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Wong and other protest leaders were accused by China&#8217;s state media at the time of trying to foment a &#8220;color revolution&#8221; to undermine Beijing&#8217;s rule.<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>He had been invited to Malaysia to participate in academic talks ahead of the 26th anniversary of Beijing&#8217;s Tiananmen Square demonstrations and bloody crackdown on June 4.<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&#8220;I don&#8217;t rule out that there is pressure from the Chinese government,&#8221; Wong told reporters on arrival at Hong Kong airport.<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>Wong was detained soon after arriving at the airport on the island of Penang on Tuesday morning, then put on a plane back to Hong Kong soon after. He said a Malaysian immigration official had told him it was a &#8220;government order&#8221; to deny him entry.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Penang immigration authorities declined immediate comment when contacted by Reuters. The Malaysian Consulate in Hong Kong confirmed that Wong was listed as &#8220;not allowed to land&#8221; but declined to provide any additional information.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>China&#8217;s Foreign Ministry office in Hong Kong couldn&#8217;t be reached for any immediate comment.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>&#8220;We are still demanding that the government make clear why they stopped Joshua Wong from coming here,&#8221; said Malaysian human rights activist Ng Yap-hwa, who helped organize Wong&#8217;s visit.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>&#8220;We&#8217;re angry at the government&#8217;s actions because there&#8217;s no reason that the Malaysian government should stop us from organizing any international talk on the democracy movement.&#8221;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>In December 2012, Malaysia returned six ethnic Uighurs from China&#8217;s restive Western region of Xinjiang, who were seeking asylum from China, Human Rights Watch reported, criticizing Malaysia for putting their lives at risk.<\/div><div><\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2015\/05\/26\/us-malaysia-hongkong-democracy-activist-idUSKBN0OB0LY20150526\">For detail please visit here<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;div&gt;Joshua Wong, 18, was one of the leaders of last year&#39;s pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong that paralyzed key roads in the city for 79 days and presented China&#39;s Communist Party leadership with one of its biggest political challenges in decades.&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ChinaHumanRights","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}