Responding to the 10-year sentence handed to Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong for “colluding with foreign forces”, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director Sarah Brooks said:

“The Hong Kong authorities’ persecution of Joshua Wong continues with this latest national security conviction, which cruelly – and perhaps deliberately – comes mere months before he would have been eligible for release under his previous conviction.

“Joshua Wong’s bravery in speaking truth to power should be commended, but instead in Hong Kong it makes him a criminal. Today’s sentence is another grim reminder of how Hong Kong’s National Security Law has become a tool to punish dissent rather than to genuinely protect national security.

“The international community should not accept the continued criminalization of legitimate activism as the new normal in Hong Kong.…