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Joshua Wong Guilty Plea

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Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong, 29, pleads guilty in the city’s High Court to conspiring to collude with foreign forces under the national security law. Singapore-based reports stress the charge and its potential maximum sentence, while Taiwan’s coverage emphasizes Wong’s years behind bars and Hong Kong’s account identifies him as a jailed pro-democracy campaigner.

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From school uniform to a 30-year-old prisoner: Joshua Wong has spent his youth behind bars

Joshua Wong entered Hong Kong’s High Court at 29, more than a decade after he first became known as a student activist in a school uniform. He pleaded guilty to a second case under Hong Kong’s National Security Law, adding uncertainty to a prison term that had been expected to end next year. Wong first attracted attention in 2012, when he opposed the Hong Kong government’s proposed national educat…