Hong Kong court sentences activist Joshua Wong to 10 years for foreign collusion
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A Hong Kong High Court sentenced activist Joshua Wong, 30, to 10 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to conspiring with exiled activist Nathan Law to urge foreign powers to impose sanctions or other hostile measures against China and Hong Kong, a national security offense under Article 29 of the law. Judge William Tam described the acts as grave, set a 13-year starting point and reduced it by three years for the guilty plea; the term runs concurrently with Wong’s remaining two-month sentence from a prior subversion conviction, extending his imprisonment by about nine years and ten months. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
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