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Hong Kong activist Wong jailed for 3 months over information breach

FILE PHOTO: Pro-democracy activists Joshua Wong and Agnes Chow arrive at the Eastern Court in a police van, after being arrested on suspicion for organising illegal protests, in Hong Kong, China August 30, 2019. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu/File Photo

One of the most prominent democracy activists in Hong Kong over recent years, Joshua Wong, was sentenced on Monday to three months in prison over an information breach involving a police officer, according to a post on Wong's Facebook account.

The 26-year-old rose to prominence in 2014, when, as a bespectacled teenager, he emerged as a leader of student-led democracy protests in which roads in the heart of the financial centre were blocked for 79 days.

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