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November 2020, Wong urged young Hong Kongers to leave and start a life elsewhere, while saying that it is too late for an "old woman" like her to do the same. She added that she would continue her activism because it would be "impossible" for her to be quiet and declared that she was not afraid of
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In June 2023, Wong and various other pro-democracy activists were arrested including Chan Po-ying, Mak Yin-ting, and Leo Tang. All of the people arrested were leaders in various pro-democracy movements including the Hong Kong
Journalists Association, Confederation of Trade Unions, and League of
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In April 2022, Wong was sentenced to six days in jail with a 18-month suspension for obstructing a police officer. On 13 July 2022, she was jailed for eight months for unlawful assembly in relation to two unauthorized protests she took part in on 11 August 2019.
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January 2019. In late November 2020, she was nominated for the
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874:"Pro-democracy protester 'Grandma Wong' returns to Hong Kong after facing criminal proceedings in China, ex-lawmaker says"
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1020:"Hong Kong activist 'Grandma Wong' sentenced to 1 month in jail for assaulting court security guard"
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in
September 2019, where she was subject to political indoctrination and was forced to sing the
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570:"Hong Kong protester 'Grandma Wong': I was held in mainland China for 14 months"
1107:"Hong Kong police arrest pro-democracy figures on Tiananmen Square anniversary"
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928:Grundy, Tom (28 November 2022).
839:Pang, Jessie (18 October 2020).
706:"【傘運三年】公廣外貼膠紙雨傘 六旬婆婆：香港人唔抗爭就會滅亡"
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757:"【旺角警民衝突】黃傘婆婆藐視法庭罪成，判罰一千元"
495:—Alexandra Wong, July 2019
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82:2019–20 Hong Kong protests
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1046:Ho, Kelly (1 June 2021).
704:麥馬高 (28 September 2017).
677:"王婆婆藐視法庭罪成決定上訴 稱續聽審支持年輕人"
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