HONG KONG: Joshua Wong, the teenage face of Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement, and two other student demonstrators went on hunger strike Monday, raising the stakes after one of the worst nights of violence to hit the demonstrations.

Wong, 18, and two young female members of his Scholarism student group announced the "indefinite" hunger strike hours after Hong Kong's leader warned that the two-month-old protests are "in vain".

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