page_title: Joshua Wong
section_title: 2019 District Councillor election controversy
hierarchical_section_title: Joshua Wong / Political career (2016–present) / 2019 District Councillor election controversy
caption_attribution_description: English: Joshua Wong was banned from the election by the government of Hong Kong on October 29, 2019. 粵語: 2019年10月29號，香港政府剝奪咗黃之鋒參選權。 中文（繁體）‎: 2019年10月29日，香港政府剝奪了黃之鋒參選權。
context_page_description: Joshua Wong Chi-fung is a Hong Kong student activist and politician. He served as secretary-general of the pro-democracy party Demosistō until it disbanded following the implementation of the Hong Kong national security law on 30 June 2020. Wong was previously convenor and founder of the Hong Kong student activist group Scholarism. Wong first rose to international prominence during the 2014 Hong Kong protests, and his pivotal role in the Umbrella Movement resulted in his inclusion in TIME magazine's Most Influential Teens of 2014 and nomination for its 2014 Person of the Year; he was further called one of the "world's greatest leaders" by Fortune magazine in 2015, and nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017.
  In August 2017, Wong and two other democracy activists were convicted and jailed for their roles in the occupation of Civic Square at the incipient stage of the 2014 Occupy Central protests; in January 2018, Wong was convicted and jailed again for failing to comply with a court order for clearance of the Mong Kok protest site during the Hong Kong protests in 2014.
context_section_description: On 29 October 2019, Joshua Wong was barred from running in forthcoming district council elections in the South Horizons West constituency by returning officer Laura Liang Aron, who temporarily took over for Dorothy Ma Chau Pui-fun (South Horizon West's returning officer) after the latter took sick leave. Many (including Joshua Wong himself) have accused the Chinese Central Government and the Hong Kong Government of pressuring Returning Officers into disqualifying Joshua Wong.
caption: Joshua Wong was banned from the election by the government of Hong Kong on 29 October 2019.
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