HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong is scheduled to be sentenced in September in a case brought under a Beijing-imposed national security law that critics say has stifled the city’s pro-democracy movement.
Wong, a former student leader in the pro-democracy movement, was arrested in June 2025 on suspicion of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces to endanger national security. It was the second time Wong was charged under the national security law introduced in Hong Kong in 2020, following massive anti-government protests that rocked the city the year before.
The judiciary’s website on Tuesday showed a hearing for plea and sentence is planned for Wong on Sept. 2. It’s expected to take one day.
Wong was accused of conspiring with fellow activist Nathan Law and others to ask foreign countries or institutions, organizations or individuals outside of China to impose sanctions, blockades or engage in other hostile actions against Hong Kong or China between July 1 and Nov. 23, 2020.
The offense is punishable by a prison term of three to 10 years, or up to life imprisonment if it is deemed to be “of a grave nature.”
