Hong Kong Democracy Leader Joshua Wong Jailed a Second Time for 2014 Protest

Hong Kong Democracy Leader Joshua Wong Jailed a Second Time for 2014 Protest
Pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong prepares to enter the High Court to hear his sentence on a protest related charge in Hong Kong on Jan. 17, 2018. ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP/Getty Images
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HONG KONG—Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong, 21, was sentenced to a second jail term of three months on Wednesday for what a judge described as his “leading” role during some of the 2014 pro-democracy “Umbrella Movement” street demonstrations.

Wong and 19 other demonstrators were found guilty of criminal contempt of court because they refused to obey a court injunction order to leave a protest zone in late November 2014.