One of the most prominent democracy activists in Hong Kong in recent years, Joshua Wong (黃之鋒), was yesterday sentenced to three months in prison over an information breach involving a police officer, a post on Wong’s Facebook account said.
The 26-year-old rose to prominence in 2014, when, as a bespectacled teenager, he emerged as a leader of student-led democracy protests in which roads in the heart of the financial center were blocked for 79 days.
In Monday’s ruling, he was sentenced for breaching a court ban on disclosing personal information about a police officer who opened fire during a protest in 2019, the post said.
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Wong attended the hearing, but did not speak, a witness in the court said.
The court did not immediately publish a written judgement, delivering only an oral sentencing. Wong’s lawyer was not immediately available for comment.
Wong galvanized international support for the former British colony’s democracy movement, meeting politicians from the US, Europe and elsewhere, and drawing the wrath of Beijing, which says he is a “black hand” of foreign forces.
Wong was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in 2018 for his role in the 2014 protests, known as the Umbrella movement because of the umbrellas protesters wielded to protect themselves from water cannons and tear gas.
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