BREAKING: Jailed Hong Kong pro-democracy campaigner Joshua Wong pleads guilty to foreign collusion charge
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- Hong Kong pro-democracy campaigner Joshua Wong pleaded guilty to conspiracy to collude with foreign forces under the city’s national security law.
- The plea marks Wong’s second conviction under the Beijing-imposed law, following a landmark subversion case.
Joshua Wong has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to collude with foreign forces, his second conviction under Hong Kong’s Beijing-imposed national security law.
The 29-year-old pro-democracy campaigner entered the plea on Wednesday at the High Court. He was accused of conspiring with a self-exiled activist.
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