Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong sentenced to 10 years for ‘foreign collusion’

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Tenzin Nyidon 

DHARAMSHALA, Nov. 6: Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Thursday after pleading guilty to conspiring to collude with foreign forces under the Beijing-imposed National Security Law, extending his imprisonment by nearly another decade.

The 30-year-old activist was sentenced by the High Court in Hong Kong on November 5. Judge William Tam set a starting sentence of 13 years, subsequently reducing it by three years in consideration of Wong’s guilty plea and mitigating circumstances. The resulting 10-year sentence is the minimum term prescribed for an offence classified as being of a “grave nature” under the National Secu...

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