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Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong will face an additional 10 months in jail for participating in an unauthorised assembly on June 4 last year to commemorate the brutal 1989 crackdown in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.
Wong, 24, already in prison due to other illegal assembly convictions and among 47 activists charged under the city’s sweeping national security law, was sentenced in the District Court on Thursday.
A 15-month sentence was reduced to 10 due to his guilty plea for attending the vigil. He will have to serve the sentence consecutively, instead of concurrently.
Last year was the first time the June 4 vigil was banned in the territory, with police citing coronavirus restrictions on group gatherings, as it did for all demonstrations last year.