HONG KONG — Joshua Wong is scheduled to be sentenced on September 2, 2026, in a national security case. The sentencing hearing is expected to take one day.

Wong was arrested in June 2025 on suspicion of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces to endanger national security. The case was brought under the national security law imposed by Beijing on Hong Kong in 2020.

This is the second time Wong has been charged under the law. He was accused of conspiring with Nathan Law and others to ask foreign entities to impose sanctions or engage in hostile actions against Hong Kong or China between July 1, 2020, and November 23, 2020. Prosecutors stated that the spying targets included Law.

The offense of conspiring to collude with foreign forces is punishable by a prison term of three to 10 years. If the offense is deemed to be of a grave nature, it is punishable by up to life imprisonment.

In a separate national security case in 2024, Wong pleaded guilty. That case was linked to an unofficial primary election. He was sentenced to four years and eight months in that case.

Wong rose to prominence in 2012 as a high school student leading protests against the introduction of national education in Hong Kong schools. He later became a leader of the 2014 Occupy Movement and co-founded the political party Demosisto in 2016. Law was also a co-founder of the party. Wong helped seek overseas support for pro-democracy protests in 2019.

Beijing labeled Wong an advocate of Hong Kong independence and accused him of soliciting interference by foreign forces. Demosisto disbanded in 2020 when the security law was imposed. Hong Kong authorities have offered rewards of 1 million Hong Kong dollars for information leading to the arrest of Law.