Joshua Wong Sentenced to a Further 10 Years in Prison

Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong has been sentenced to a further 10 years in prison, which The Guardian reports will take his total time behind bars to more than 16 years. The sentence was handed down in the week before 13 November 2026.

Wong was convicted under Hong Kong's national security law, the legislation under which the territory prosecutes offences the authorities treat as threats to national security. Such cases are usually heard in the same courts as other criminal matters, but the law sets out its own offences and procedures.

Wong, who is now 30, has been leading protests since he was 14 years old, according to The Guardian. His rise as a teenage campaigner made him one of the most recognisable faces of the city's pro-democracy movement, a movement whose leaders have faced prosecution in recent years.

The Guardian's audio report on his case traces his career from those early protests to his current imprisonment. Further details of the conviction and the sentence were not set out, and no further developments have been reported.