At least in my heart, he should not have spent a single day in wrongful imprisonment,
Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for his second conviction under a Beijing-imposed national security law, according to the NPR report. Wong was charged in 2025 with conspiracy to collude with foreign forces to endanger national security under the law. The 30-year-old pleaded guilty to the offense in September, a move that can typically reduce the sentence.
Judge William Tam said during the sentencing hearing that Wong's offense was of a grave nature and rejected that his role was limited. The judge considered a 13-year prison sentence as a starting point but reduced it because of Wong's guilty plea. Wong looked calm and thanked his supporters before leaving the court. His supporters waved to him and Tiffany Chin, a former member of the now-disbanded Scholarism, once led by Wong, was in tears.
Wong is already serving a four-year, eight-month prison term for the city's biggest national security case linked to an unofficial primary after entering a guilty plea in that case. The judge said Wong could serve his two prison sentences concurrently. Wong only has about two months left on the sentence for his previous national security conviction. Before being prosecuted for the collusion-related charge, Wong had been expected to be freed in January 2027.
The sentencing of Joshua Wong reflects the crackdown on Hong Kong's once-thriving pro-democracy movement. Hong Kong once had a freewheeling civil society marked by its vibrant protest and media scenes. But after an anti-government movement rocked the city in 2019, authorities reduced public choice in elections and arrested many leading activists. Some news outlets known for their reports critical of the government shut down, and dozens of civil society groups dissolved.
Resident ET Wong said that when Joshua Wong was just a teenager, he possessed
