Hong Kong activist set for September sentencing in second national security case.
Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong is scheduled to be sentenced in September in a case brought under a Beijing-imposed national security law.
Joshua Wong, a former student leader in Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement, was arrested in June 2025 on suspicion of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces to endanger national security.
The judiciary’s website on Tuesday showed that a hearing for plea and sentencing is planned for Wong in September.
Wong rose to prominence in Hong Kong in 2012 as a high school student leading protests against the introduction of national education in the city’s schools.
He later became internationally known as one of the leaders of the 2014 Occupy Movement.
In 2016, Wong co-founded the political party Demosisto with other young activists, including Nathan Law.
Wong was accused of conspiring with Law and others to call on foreign countries, institutions, organisations or individuals outside China to impose sanctions, blockades or other hostile actions against Hong Kong or China.
Demosisto disbanded when Beijing imposed the national security law in 2020, which authorities say restored stability to the city.
Hong Kong authorities have also offered rewards of HK$1 million, or about $127,600, for information leading to the arrests of Law, who moved to Britain, and other overseas-based activists.