He has been leading protests since he was 14. Joshua Wong has been on the cover of Time magazine, the focus of a Netflix documentary and an icon for Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement.Wong has been leading the fight against a Chinese squeeze on freedoms in Hong Kong for the last 15 years.
He will now spend more than 16 years in prison.As Danny Vincent explains, the 30-year-old was sentenced last week to a further 10 years in prison, convicted under the island’s draconian national security law.Helen Pidd also hears from Joshua’s friend – and fellow movement leader – Nathan Law about the prospects for democracy in Hong Kong. Photograph: Fazry Ismail/EPA