Tiananmen vigil sentence
Prominent prodemocracy activist Joshua Wong was sentenced to more jail time Thursday for participating in an unauthorized vigil to commemorate the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, as Hong Kong authorities exert more control over dissent in the city.
For years, Hong Kong was the only place in China where people were allowed to mark the anniversary of Beijing’s crushing of the Chinese democracy movement.
Wong, who rose to prominence as a student activist and was the face of the 2014 prodemocracy protests, is already in jail after being convicted of illegal assembly in other protests and was sentenced to an additional 10 months.