a statement saying "China’s brutal sentencing of these young champions of democracy in Hong Kong is appalling." Pelosi further called on the world to denounce "this unjust sentencing and China’s widespread assault on Hong Kongers.” US Senator Marsha Blackburn also called the sentence destroying "any semblance of autonomy in Hong Kong." In addition, US State Secretary Michael Pompeo decried the prison term in an official statement issued by the State department. United Kingdom UK Foreign Minister Dominic Raab issued a statement urging "Hong Kong and Beijing authorities to bring an end to their campaign to stifle opposition" in response to the prison sentences of the three pro-democracy activists. Japan Japan's government spokesperson Katsunobu Kato in a regular news conference expressed Japan's "increasingly grave concerns about the recent Hong Kong situation such as sentences against three including Agnes Chow". Taiwan The Overseas Community Affairs Council (OCAC) issued a statement referencing to the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) that "the decision to imprison Joshua Wong, Agnes Chow, and Ivan Lam represents a failure by the Hong Kong government to protect the people's political rights and freedom of speech". Germany Maria Adebahr, a Germany's foreign ministry spokesperson, stated that the prison terms are “another building block in a series of worrisome developments that we have seen in connection with human and civil rights in Hong Kong during the last year.” Imprisonment under National Security Law On 6 January 2021, Wong was among 53 members of the pro-democratic camp who were arrested under the national security law, specifically its provision regarding alleged subversion. The group stood accused of the organisation of and participation in the primaries of July 2020. He was arrested from prison, and his home was reportedly searched. On 28 February 2021, he was formally charged, along with 46 others for subversion. Publications "Taking Back Hong Kong’s Future," New York Times, 29 October 2014 "Self-Determination is the Only Solution for Hong Kong, TIME, 24 September 2015 With Felix Marquardt, "In Hong Kong and All Around the World, the #StarWarsGen Will Be Wooed, Not Coerced," Huffington Post, 31 May 2016 With Jeffrey Ngo, "Reclaiming Our Right to Self-Determination in Post-Umbrella Hong Kong," World Policy Journal, 14 October 2016 With Jeffrey Ngo, "How China Stripped Hong Kong of its Right to Self-Determination in 1972 – and Distorted History," Hong Kong Free Press, 9 November 2016 With Jeffrey Ngo, "Hong Kong’s Protest Leaders Demand Self-Determination," Wall