Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong handed longer jail term for Tiananmen vigil

Joshua Wong, centre (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Prominent pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong has been sentenced to more jail time for participating in an unauthorised 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.