He has been leading protests since he was ۱۴. Joshua Wong has been on the cover of Time magazine, the focus of a Netflix documentary and an icon for Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement.
Wong has been leading the fight against a Chinese squeeze on freedoms in Hong Kong for the last ۱۵ years. He will now spend more than ۱۶ years in prison.
As Danny Vincent explains, the ۳۰-year-old was sentenced last week to a further ۱۰ years in prison, convicted under the island’s draconian national security law.
Helen Pidd also hears from Joshua’s friend – and fellow movement leader – Nathan Law about the prospects for democracy in Hong Kong.
