Hong Kong court sentences activist Joshua Wong to 10 years in prison under national security law

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A Hong Kong court sentenced prominent pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong to 10 years in prison for a second national security conviction, Bloomberg reported on Thursday 5 November, significantly extending Wong's time behind bars just months before Wong was expected to be freed. Wong had pleaded guilty to foreign collusion charges, Bloomberg reported, and The NY Times wrote that Wong, one of the most high-profile members of a movement that was quashed in 2020, was accused of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces, a national security offense. Once a rising political star in Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement, Wong has been sentenced again under Beijing's national security law, The Philadelphia Inquirer and ABC News reported.

Latest: A Hong Kong court sentenced pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong to 10 years in prison under Beijing's national security law after Wong pleaded guilty to foreign collusion charges, Bloomberg reported, The NY Times writing that Wong was accused of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces, a national security offense, and The Philadelphia Inquirer and ABC News that Wong, once a rising political star in Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement, has been sentenced again.

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