Ten governments issued a joint statement on 6 November 2026 responding to the sentencing of Joshua Wong, who received 10 years' imprisonment under Hong Kong's National Security Law following a further charge. The statement came from the foreign ministries of Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States, and was published by the UK's Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office.

The statement noted that the sentence came just months after leaders of the Hong Kong Alliance were convicted under the same legislation. The ten governments said these were further examples of how the law is being used to target individuals for political expression and participation.

They called for an immediate end to all prosecutions of individuals charged under the National Security Law that they described as unjust, and urged authorities in China and Hong Kong to uphold their international commitments and the rights and freedoms guaranteed to Hong Kong's people under the Sino-British Joint Declaration of 1984.