From The New Indian Express
Center Owned by Express Publications (Madurai) Ltd.Once a teen activist, Hong Kong's Joshua Wong is spending years of his adult life in prison
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Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong, now 30, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison in a second national security case. He is already serving a four-year, eight-month term for the city’s biggest national security case. Wong, who was once the figurehead of Hong Kong’s democracy movement, first went to prison at age 23.
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center · 5 outlets
Wong sentenced under Beijing-imposed national security law in a case linked to alleged collusion with foreign forces.
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HONG KONG: Prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Thursday in his second conviction under Beijing-imposed national security law, in a case critics say reflects the crackdown on the city's pro-democracy movement. Wong, 30, was charged in June…
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HONG KONG: Some 15 years ago, then-high school student Joshua Wong was a rising political star in Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement. Now 30, he has been sentenced for the second time under a Beijing-imposed national security law that effectively crushed the movement he once championed. Critics say…
