The scene in Mong Kok at around 10:40am. (Photo: Antony Dapiran via Twitter)
Joshua Wong, the leader of Scholarism, and Lester Shum, the deputy secretary-general of the Hong Kong Federation of Students, have been arrested in Mong Kok as the police and bailiffs continue to clear the streets after last night’s violent clashes, in which 80 people were arrested.
Some people on Twitter reported seeing Shum get taken away, while the SCMP confirmed the two arrests.
Venus Wu, a video journalist for Reuters, tweeted the following:
Isabella Steger, a journalist for the Wall Street Journal, reported that another HKFS leader, as well as a member of the League of Social Democrats, had also been arrested:
HKFS wrote in a post on their Facebook page that Shum was arrested at 10:16am.
Jeffie Lam, a reporter for the SCMP, said Shum had previously said he’d rather get arrested than turn himself in, hinting that he perhaps anticipated the action:
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