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Teen prodigy, Netflix star, prisoner: the story of Hong Kong dissident Joshua Wong – podcast

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.

✦ Extractive summary — built from the sources' own reporting•From 1 source•1 min read•Updated November 13, 2026, 3:00 AM UTC
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  • Send your comments and questions to [email protected] He has been leading protests since he was 14.
  • He will now spend more than 16 years in prison.

Pro-democracy activist Nathan Law and journalist Danny Vincent on the sentencing of the iconic Hong Kong campaigner Joshua Wong to another 10 years in prison.

Wong has been leading the fight against a Chinese squeeze on freedoms in Hong Kong for the last 15 years.

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