Joshua Wong Gets 10-Year Sentence for 2nd Security Conviction, Delaying Release Beyond January
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Updated · CNN · Nov 5
Joshua Wong Gets 10-Year Sentence for 2nd Security Conviction, Delaying Release Beyond January
3 articles · Updated · CNN · Nov 5
Summary
A Hong Kong court handed Joshua Wong 10 years in prison for conspiring to invite foreign sanctions, his second national security conviction and a sentence that extends his expected January release.
Judge William Tam called the case “grave,” saying Wong and others, including exiled former lawmaker Nathan Law, kept lobbying through social media and Western media even after the security law took effect in 2020.
Wong, 30, is already serving 4 years and 8 months from the 2024 subversion case; prosecutors said his group met U.S. politicians and pushed sanctions that later hit more than a dozen Hong Kong and Chinese officials.
The sentence underscores how Beijing’s 2020 national security law has remade Hong Kong, with authorities calling it necessary for stability while critics say it has crushed dissent, shuttered media and driven activists to prison or exile.