UC Berkeley doctoral student jailed after leading Hong Kong pro-democracy protests
(WorldNews China)

Weeks before Alex Chow was set to attend UC Berkeley in the fall, he was arrested by Hong Kong government officials for his lead role in initiating 79 days of pro-democracy protests. Chow, who at the time of his arrest had completed a master´s program in city design at the London School of Economics, or LSE, was due to pursue a doctorate in geography on campus this fall. According to chair of the campus geography department Nathan Sayre, Chow was planning to study nonviolent social movements. The unrest began in August 2014, when the Chinese government ruled that Hong Kong residents would only be able to vote for their 2017 chief executive, the head of Hong Kong government, from a list of...