Prominent Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong and two of his longtime colleagues were handed prison sentences on Dec. 2 for their roles in a mass protest that occurred in front of the city’s police headquarters in 2019.
Wong, 24, was sentenced to 13 1/2 months after a court session at the West Kowloon Magistrates Court. Fellow pro-democracy activists Agnes Chow, 23, and Ivan Lam, 26, received prison sentences of 10 months and seven months, respectively.