Joshua Wong’s Hong Kong Prison Sentence Keeps Getting Longer
- Local court adds 10 months to the activist’s prison sentence
- City’s opposition movement besieged as Beijing tightens grip
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A Hong Kong court added 10 months to pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong’s jail term, as authorities deepen their crackdown against political opponents.
The ruling by Hong Kong’s District Court came Thursday after the 24-year-old recently pleaded guilty to taking part in an unauthorized assembly in 2020 — a crime punishable by up to five years in jail. Wong and thousands of others held a vigil on June 4 to commemorate the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, defying an unprecedented ban on the event that authorities said was necessary due to the pandemic.