Hong Kong student activists charged over anti-China protest

HONG KONG: Hong Kong student leader Joshua Wong and another prominent young pro-democracy activist were charged Tuesday over an anti-China protest last year, in what they said was a witch hunt against political campaigners in the city.

Wong, 18, the teenage face of the city's pro-democracy movement, and Nathan Law, 22, leader of the major university student union, accused the authorities of rounding up activists after a contentious Beijing-backed reform package was vetoed last month.