When will Joshua Wong be sentenced for his new charge?

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Joshua Wong will be sentenced on September 2 for his new national security charge.
Joshua Wong is scheduled to enter a plea and be sentenced in September in a separate national security case. The Hong Kong judiciary website lists September 2 as the date for the plea and sentence.
The sentencing date listed by the court
The court website shows that Joshua Wong’s plea and sentence are set for September 2. The scheduling is tied to a separate national security case from the one in which he is already serving a jail term.
The case is separate from his existing subversion sentence
Wong is already serving a nearly five-year sentence for subversion. The September proceedings relate to a different national security charge brought under Hong Kong’s Beijing-imposed national security law.
His new charge is tied to a national security accusation
Prosecutors have said Wong, along with activist Nathan Law and others, asked foreign entities to seriously disrupt the formulation and implementation of laws or policies in Hong Kong and China. The offence is described as potentially punishable by life imprisonment if found to be of a “serious nature.”

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