HONG KONG: Hong Kong student leader Joshua Wong was acquitted on Tuesday over an anti-China protest in the first of a series of cases against him to reach a verdict.

Wong, 19, was the teenage face of the pro-democracy Umbrella Movement, which brought parts of Hong Kong to a standstill for more than two months in late 2014 with street rallies calling on Beijing to allow fully free leadership elections.

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