Joshua Wong Receives Further 10-Year Hong Kong Sentence

Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong was sentenced to a further 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to conspiring to collude with foreign forces under the city’s national security law. The sentence drew condemnation from the United States, the United Kingdom and eight other governments, while Chinese and Hong Kong officials defended the proceedings as lawful national-security enforcement.

The joint statement from the 10 governments said the law was being used to target people for political expression and participation. It called for an end to prosecutions they considered unjust and urged China and Hong Kong to uphold commitments to protect rights and freedoms under the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration. The group included Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands and New Zealand, alongside the US and UK.

Wong, 30, had been in detention since 2020 and was already serving a four-year-and-eight-month sentence in a separate national security case. His new term is expected to keep him imprisoned until late 2036. Two months and two days of the sentence will run concurrently with his existing term, according to one report. The latest conviction followed his...