'Joshua Wong is a brave and inspiring young leader.' - GRETA THUNBERG Imprisoned on 2 December
2020 for the third time read Joshua Wong's urgent and powerful story - the Hong Konger
fighting for democracy.INTRODUCTION BY AI WEIWEI FOREWORD BY CHRIS PATTEN Unfree Speech is
Joshua's urgent call for us to defend our democratic values whoever we are.It chronicles
Joshua's path to activism collects the letters he wrote as a political prisoner and closes
with a powerful and urgent manifesto for us to defend our democracies at time of global flux
and change.Joshua Wong made history when he was 14. While the adults stayed silent Joshua
staged the first ever student protest in Hong Kong to oppose National Education - and won.
Since then he led the Umbrella Movement founded a political party and rallied the
international community around the Hong Kong protests which saw 2 million people take to the
streets. Now he is in jail again. His actions have sparked worldwide attention and earned him
a Nobel Peace Prize nomination as he continues to fight for what he believes in. His message
is clear: when we stay silent no one is safe. When we free our speech our voice becomes one.
'If we want freedom we need to learn from Hong Kong. With values tactics and courage Joshua
Wong shows us the way.' - Timothy Snyder bestselling author of On Tyranny'A guide to
mobilising for democracy and representation in and far beyond Hong Kong.' - Julia Lovell
award-winning author of Maoism- The Times Book of the Week - - Observer Book of the Week - -
Named by the Financial Times as one of the 50 people who shaped the decade -
