Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong sentenced to 10 more years

· Politics · Hong Kong

Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong was sentenced on Thursday to 10 more years in prison after earlier pleading guilty to "foreign collusion" in a national security case. Wong, who turned 30 in October and has been in prison since 2020, has already spent almost six years behind bars. He is the only activist in Hong Kong prosecuted twice under the national security law. Once a leader of the 2014 Umbrella Movement, Wong rose to prominence as a teenage protest leader.

Why it matters：The sentence signals the continuing tightening of Hong Kong's political space and will draw international scrutiny of the territory's national security law.

Key points

  • Wong was convicted of foreign collusion under the national security law.
  • He has been in prison since 2020 and turned 30 in October.
  • He is the only activist prosecuted twice under the law.

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