HONG KONG—Joshua Wong, 24, one of Hong Kong’s most prominent democracy activists, was jailed on Wednesday for 13 and a half months for his role in a rally at anti-government protests last year, ramping up pressure on opposition figures in the Chinese-ruled city.
Wong’s sentence comes as critics of the Beijing-backed government say it is intensifying a crackdown on Hong Kong’s opposition and wide-ranging freedoms guaranteed after the former British colony returned to Chinese rule in 1997, a charge authorities in Beijing and Hong Kong deny.
