http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/05/world/asia/joshua-wong-thailand-hong-kong.html 2016-10-05 05:04:55 Joshua Wong, Pro-Democracy Leader in Hong Kong, Is Detained in Bangkok Demosisto, the political party Mr. Wong recently helped establish, said it was told that the Thai government acted on a request from China. === BEIJING — The party, Demosisto, which Mr. Wong had recently helped to establish, said Mr. Wong had arrived in The party said it had been unable to get any word of Mr. Wong until 4:18 a.m. Hong Kong time, when a Thai student activist who was expecting to meet with him notified the party that Mr. Wong had been detained at the international airport. The party said the student told them that the authorities had received a letter from the Chinese government regarding Mr. Wong’s trip. He added that he had been unable to get in touch directly with Mr. Wong. The party said it “strongly condemns the Thai government for unreasonably limiting Wong’s freedom and right to entry, and requests the immediate release of Wong.” Mr. Wong drew international attention as one of the leaders of the Umbrella Revolution protests in 2014, which called for more democratic elections in Hong Kong, a largely autonomous former British colony that reverted to Chinese control in 1997. After the 2014 protests, which were denounced as “unlawful” by the Chinese authorities, Malaysia barred Mr. Wong from entry. Malaysia’s police inspector general said Mr. Wong was denied entry in May 2015 because Mr. Wong has spoken at dozens of schools around the world, including universities in Tokyo, Taiwan and the United States. Though the Hong Kong protests did not win any immediate political concessions from Beijing, they Agnes Chow, deputy secretary general of Demosisto, said, “The Chinese government doesn’t want Hong Kong’s pro-democracy voices to be heard outside.” “But the harder it tries to suppress us,” Ms. Chow added, “the louder we’d be heard.” The Thai government has a recent record of complying with security requests from the Chinese government. It has deported scores of Uighur refugees back to Peter Dahlin, the Swedish legal rights advocate who was detained and expelled from China last year, said Chinese officers were also able to conduct surveillance on Chinese rights lawyers doing training on a Thai island. Mr. Dahlin now lives in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Sophie Richardson, director of China research for