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

Teen prodigy, Netflix star, prisoner: the story of Hong Kong dissident Joshua Wong – podcastPro-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. Send your comments and questions to tif.questions@theguardian.com

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.

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