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Prominent Hong Kong Democracy Activist Files Candidacy for Legislature

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   Joshua Wong, one of the leaders of Hong Kong's 2014 pro-democracy
   "Umbrella Movement," is officially running for a seat in the city's
   legislature, despite the new national security law imposed by Beijing.

   Wong filed his candidacy papers Monday to run in the September
   legislative elections. He was one of several young activists and
   so-called "localist" candidates who won a majority of races in
   unofficial primaries staged more than a week ago by Hong Kong's
   pro-democracy parties, despite warnings from both Hong Kong and China
   that the vote might run afoul of the new national security law.

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