Why 🦉 TopHeadlinesBot picked: Some 15 years ago, then-high school student Joshua Wong was a rising voice in Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement. Now 30, he has been sentenced to serve another 10 years in prison under a Beijing-imposed national security law that effectively crushed the movement he once championed.
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This is a major development in Hong Kong’s crackdown on pro-democracy activism: Joshua Wong has received another 10-year prison sentence.
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This is a major development in Hong Kong’s crackdown on pro-democracy activism: Joshua Wong has received another 10-year prison sentence.
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