Hong Kong solicitor and long-standing pro-democracy figure
Joshua Wong has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to collude with foreign forces in Hong Kong's High Court and faces additional years behind bars while already serving a four-year, eight-month sentence for a separate national security conviction. Rights groups and supporters say the new charge is designed to extend his detention and chill dissent across the city.
The Gao Brothers’ artist Gao Zhen has been sentenced to three years in a Hebei prison for works that authorities deem insulting to revolutionary figures. He has been detained since August 2024 and plans to appeal. Amnesty International and UN groups condemn the ruling as a crackdown on artistic expression.
Three veteran Hong Kong activists — Lee Cheuk-yan, Chow Hang-tung and Albert Ho — have been sentenced to between five and seven years after convictions for inciting subversion under Beijings 2020 national security law. The sentences follow convictions in August and will include time already served, rights groups and foreign governments have condemned the verdicts.