Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong sentenced to 10 years in prison in national security case

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Wong, 30, in prison since 2020, is only activist in Hong Kong prosecuted twice under national security law Exclusive: Joshua Wong laments city’s fate from inside maximum security prison The Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after earlier pleading guilty to “foreign collusion”, his second conviction under a national security law critics say has been used to silence political opposition in the city. Wong, who rose to prominence as the teenage face of Hong Kong’s 2014 pro-democracy demonstrations, submitted his guilty plea in September. He had been accused of working with the exiled Hong Kong activist Nathan

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