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2026-11-05 · Aljazeera

Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong sentenced to 10 years in jail

Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong , who has been in prison since 2020, has been jailed for an additional 10 years. Hong Kong’s High Court found Wong guilty of colluding with foreign entities in violation of the city’s national security law on Thursday. The sentence comes just two months before he was expected to be released in January 2027. “The punishment must fit the gravity of ⁠the crime,” High Court Judge William Tam told a packed courtroom while delivering the sentence. “It is also necessary for the court to express the community’s abhorrence of the defendant’s scheme and acts with others to collude with foreign forces or external elements to endanger national security.

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