Stand News was founded by Tony Tsoi Tung-ho in December 2014, when the pro-democracy Umbrella Movement was coming to a close. The outlet primarily reports on pro-democracy and anti-communist Hong Kong news.

Tai was a leading figure in Hong Kong's 2014 "Umbrella Movement" protests, which paralyzed the city for 79 days as demonstrators occupied main roads demanding greater democracy in city elections.

This weekend was the Global Anti-Totalitarianism March and the 5 year anniversary of the 2014 Umbrella Movement. And Hong Kong police met protesters with excessive force and tear gas. And we were there for it all.

Wong, who was 17 when he became the face of the 2014 student-led Umbrella Movement, has not been a leading figure of the often-violent protests that have shaken the semi-autonomous financial hub for the past 12 months.

In an interview with The Epoch Times, KC admitted that since the Umbrella Movement in 2014, he began to pay more attention to current affairs.

Law was released from jail on bail pending an appeal against conviction for his role in the 2014 Umbrella Movement protests.

Wong, who was 17 when he became the face of the 2014 student-led Umbrella Movement protests, was not a leading figure of the protests that shook the semi-autonomous financial hub last year.

"Light Hidden in Dust" and "Thick Fog and Dark Light" were accused of being related to the Umbrella Movement and demonstrations, while "Abstinence and Fellow Practitioners" was accused of being related to Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo.

Wong, 22, was the public face of the 2014 Hong Kong pro-democracy protests known as the Umbrella Movement.

pro-democracy Umbrella Movement.

The Black Lives Matter movement acts as an umbrella movement for many related protests and usually takes a loose form. However, Patrisse Cullors, a co-founder of the movement, said back in 2015 that they do following a specific ideology.

Tsang, 61, led the Hong Kong Police Force in dealing with mass pro-democracy protests in 2014 known as the Umbrella Movement, and has been criticized for his hardline tactics against protesters.

Among them was Joshua Wong, the iconic figure from the 2014 Umbrella Movement, who said that the landslide election victory by pro-democracy candidates last Sunday showed that “we [pro-democracy] are the majority.”

He witnessed students who protected themselves with umbrellas from police tear gas during the Umbrella Movement that opposed the Beijing regime’s decision to subvert the universal suffrage that Hong Kong was promised in the Basic Law.

“Revealing instances of corruption provides Russian propagandists with ammunition more potent than bullets," says Bohdan Vorontsov, co-founder of the Free Nation movement, an umbrella organization of groups that prioritize anti-corruption efforts.

(Song Bilung/The Epoch Times) Joshua Wong—the iconic activist from Hong Kong’s 2014 Umbrella Movement and secretary-general of pro-democracy party Demosistō—told AEI in an interview (pdf) on May 12 that since the pro-democracy camp in Hong Kong won 85

“Besides public activists and celebrities, even small-budget independent documentary films on topics like June Fourth, the Umbrella Movement, LGBTQ rights, and other areas deemed ‘sensitive’ in the mainland run the risk of being erased,” Berry said.

(Vincent Yu/AP) Tai, who was jailed for his role in Hong Kong’s 2014 “Umbrella Movement,” was sacked from his tenured position at the University of Hong Kong on July 28.

In 2018, Law was among a group of activists sentenced to jail for “unlawful assembly,” for their involvement in the Umbrella Movement protests. Their jail sentences were overturned on appeal.

Wong also shared that protesters have learned from the previous Umbrella Movement that he led. “During the Umbrella Movement when police fired tear gas, the only reaction of protesters is to leave that smoke-surrounded area,” Wong said.

References to the bloody 1989 massacre of protesters in and around Beijing's Tiananmen Square and the 2014 "Umbrella Movement" protests in Hong Kong have been removed from textbooks seen by Reuters, along with other pro-democracy events.

Huge protests calling for democracy, especially on the anniversaries of the June 4, 1989, Tiananmen crackdown, were common and brought major streets to a standstill for 79 days in the Umbrella movement of 2014.

He later became one of the key student leaders in the 2014 pro-democracy Umbrella Movement that called for universal suffrage in city elections.

China Times’ coverage of the Umbrella Movement generally “reflected the viewpoint expressed by the Chinese state news agency Xinhua,” the RSF report said.

Joshua Wong, activist and the iconic figure from the 2014 Umbrella Movement, tweeted on Feb. 2 asking people to support the strike. “This is the only last-ditch leverage medical professionals have before our healthcare system collapses.

The UNCAT report on the 2014 protests expressed concern about “consistent reports of excessive use of tear gas, batons, and sprays against protesters during the 79-day protest of the so-called ‘umbrella’ or ‘occupy’ movement in 2014."

Among the 12 candidates disqualified on Thursday were Joshua Wong, the iconic figure from the 2014 Umbrella Movement, and three incumbent lawmakers of the pro-democracy Civic Party, Alvin Yeung, Dennis Kwok, and Kwok Ka-ki.

He said the Hong Kong court jailing him and other leaders of the Umbrella Movement in 2018 was an example of the city’s deterioration of civil rights.

A poster showing President Donald Trump is seen on a pro-democracy "Lennon Wall" ahead of a rally to mark the fifth anniversary of the 2014 Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong on Sept. 28, 2019.

Now, in the seventh month of the campaign, protesters must answer important questions: Where is the movement headed now? Can it be sustained, or will it fade like the Umbrella Movement? “Now, it’s a critical ... turning point.