“Jailed activist Joshua Wong to be sentenced on Thursday in 2nd national security trial”

Key points

• Hong Kong High Court will sentence Joshua Wong on Thursday for foreign collusion.
• Wong pleads guilty to foreign collusion, maximum penalty is life imprisonment.
• He is already serving four years and eight months for subversion in the Hong Kong 47 case.
• Judge William Tam will hand down the sentence at 9:30 am, proceedings last about 30 minutes.
• Wong’s lawyer sought a starting sentence of around 10 years with mitigations.