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Hong Kong’s Joshua Wong: From teenage protest leader to a decade behind bars

Rappler6 November 2026, 03:21 UTCPeople's Republic of China

He will be approaching 40 when he leaves jail, a long way off from his days as a one-year-old toddler in 1997, when Britain handed his city back to China with a promise of extensive autonomy and freedom of speech and assembly

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