Crime & Justice
Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong jailed 10 years for foreign collusion
November 5, 2026 at 04:56 AM · Updated 44m ago
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AJAl Jazeera English
Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong sentenced to 10 years in jail
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TGThe Guardian
Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong sentenced to 10 years in prison in national security case
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BNBBC News
Joshua Wong, face of Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests, jailed for 10 years
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CNCNN
Hong Kong democracy campaigner Joshua Wong handed another 10 years in jail
(opens the publisher’s site)A Hong Kong court sentenced pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong to 10 years in prison for foreign collusion, his second conviction under the national security law.
- Wong, 30, pleaded guilty in September to conspiring with exiled activist Nathan Law to lobby foreign powers to impose sanctions on China.
- Judge William Tam said Wong visited the US to seek foreign interference before the law's 2020 introduction and kept sharing Law's calls for sanctions afterward.
- The 10-year term runs concurrently with the remainder of his sentence for subversion, which was due to end in January 2027.
- A Hong Kong government spokesperson said lawful free speech must not be conflated with colluding with a foreign country to impose sanctions.
- The US consulate, Taiwan, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International criticized the sentence, condemning it as political persecution.