# Joshua Wong: From Student Protest Leader to National Security Law Prisoner, Freedom Still Out of Reach

https://mins.news/en/item/41409

- BBC Chinese, 2026-09-02 04:43 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/articles/cj4j8n42r51o/trad?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

> Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong, detained since November 2020, has spent nearly six years in prison. He pleaded guilty on September 2, 2026, at Hong Kong’s High Court to conspiracy to collude with foreign forces endangering national security. Sentencing was adjourned; the charge carries a maximum life sentence.

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