Joshua Wong gets 10 more years, pushing his prison time past 16

Joshua Wong, the Hong Kong dissident who became the face of the city's pro-democracy movement, was sentenced last week to a further 10 years in prison. Convicted under Hong Kong's national security law, he is now set to spend more than 16 years behind bars. He is 30 years old.

Wong has been leading protests since he was 14, and has spent roughly 15 years fighting what The Guardian describes as a Chinese squeeze on freedoms in Hong Kong. Along the way he landed on the cover of Time magazine and became the subject of a Netflix documentary, turning him into an icon of the movement.

The Guardian lays out his story in a new podcast episode, with Danny Vincent walking through the sentence handed down last week and the national security law it came under, which the outlet calls draconian. Helen Pidd also speaks with Nathan Law, a fellow movement leader and a friend of Wong's, about what is left of the prospects for democracy in Hong Kong.