SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST: Student activist Joshua Wong Chi-fung announced last night that he had begun a hunger strike in a bid to force a meeting with Chief Secretary Carrie Lam Yuet-ngor to discuss reform of the city’s political system.
The Scholarism leader, who has been instrumental in repeatedly bringing students onto the streets during the Occupy protests to push Beijing for a change in policy, said his hunger strike would go on indefinitely…
“Carrie Lam said earlier the door to dialogue was always open. Our humble demand is to ask for dialogue to discuss the possibility of withdrawing the current [reform] proposal and relaunch the five-step reform process,” Wong said, adding that no other preconditions would be set for the talks… (more)
