Joshua Wong Sentenced to 10 Years in Hong Kong on Second National Security Conviction

A Hong Kong court has sentenced pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong, 30, to 10 years in prison on a charge of conspiracy to collude with foreign entities under the city's national security law. The sentence is his second national security conviction and significantly extends his time behind bars, coming just months before he had been expected to be released.

Wong became one of the most recognizable international faces of Hong Kong's democracy movement before it was forcibly quashed in 2020. The new 10-year term ensures he will remain imprisoned well into the future, marking a further blow to Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement under the national security framework Beijing imposed on the city.