DAVID PIERSON2026年9月2日2019年黄之锋在华盛顿。他游说西方政治人物向香港施压的努力成为他最新的国家安全案件的中心。 Alastair Pike/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesJoshua Wong, a prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy activist, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to collusion for lobbying Western lawmakers, a case that shows how China treats international outreach as a national security crime.周三，香港知名民主派活动人士黄之锋就涉及游说西方议员的勾结外国势力案表示认罪。此案表明中国已将对外联络行为视为危害国家安全的犯罪。The maximum penalty for colluding with foreign forces is life in prison.勾结外国或者境外势力罪的最高刑罚为终身监禁。Mr. Wong was accused of conspiring with other campaigners to lobby lawmakers, particularly those in the United States like Nancy Pelosi and Marco Rubio, to impose sanctions on Hong Kong and China. The campaigners sought to pressure officials in Beijing and Hong Kong for greater democratic rights in the semiautonomous territory.黄之锋被指控与其他倡议者串谋，游说包括南希·佩洛西与马尔科·鲁比奥在内的美国议员对香港和中国实施制裁。这些倡议者旨在向北京和香港官员施压，以在该半自治地区争取更多民主权利。Mr. Wong, who turns 30 next month, was one of the youngest activists in a democracy movement that was quashed in 2020 after Beijing introduced a sweeping national security law that effectively outlawed political dissent in Hong Kong.2020年北京出台全面国家安全法、实际上等于取缔了香港的政治异见后，当地民主运动被镇压，下个月将满30岁的黄之锋曾是该运动中最年轻的活动人士之一。In a sign of the sensitivity around the case, police officers in tactical vests and police vehicles surrounded the courthouse where Mr. Wong’s case was being heard on Wednesday.周三，身着防弹衣的警察与警车包围了审理黄之锋案件的法院，凸显出此案的敏感程度。He is already serving an almost five-year prison term for his role in an unofficial primary election in 2020 organized by the city’s pro-democracy camp that the authorities deemed subversive. That case, the city’s largest national security trial, led to the conviction of Mr. Wong and more than 40 other former politicians and activists.因参与2020年由民主派阵营组织、被当局认定具颠覆性的非官方初选，黄之锋目前已在服近五年的刑期。该案是香港规模最大的国家安全审判，导致黄之锋及40多名其他前政治人物和活动人士被定罪。Mr. Wong was arrested on the foreign collusion charge in June last year while in prison. On Wednesday, his lawyers urged the judge, William Tam, to consider a lighter sentence, saying Mr. Wong had matured substantially and hoped to one day leave prison so that he could take care of his aging parents.去年6月，仍在服刑中的黄之锋因涉嫌勾结外国势力罪被捕。周三，其辩护律师敦促法官谭耀豪考虑轻判，表示黄之锋已日趋成熟，希望终能出狱照顾年迈的双亲。Mr. Wong’s repeated prosecutions reflect the drastic political changes that have taken place in Hong Kong, a former British colony, since it was returned to China in 1997. At the time, Beijing agreed to preserve Western-style civil liberties that are not available in mainland China, such as freedom of speech, for 50 years.黄之锋屡遭起诉折射出这个前英国殖民地自1997年回归中国以来发生的剧烈政治变迁。彼时，北京曾同意将言论自由等中国大陆所不具备的西式公民自由保留50年。Today, the city’s legislature is devoid of any significant opposition and independent media and members of civil society have largely been muzzled. Bookstores accused of carrying subversive books have been closed.如今，香港立法机关已无任何实质性的反对派，独立媒体与公民社会成员大多被噤声，被指售卖颠覆性书籍的书店也已停业。Mr. Wong’s plea on Wednesday came seven months after a court sentenced Jimmy Lai, a pro-democracy media tycoon, to 20 years in prison on charges of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces and conspiracy to publish seditious materials under the national security law.在黄之锋周三认罪的七个月前，法院根据国家安全法判处民主派媒体大亨黎智英20年监禁，黎智英被控串谋勾结外国势力及串谋发布煽动刊物罪。Mr. Wong rose to prominence in 2012, when at he age of 14 he led a student movement to oppose the introduction of a Chinese national education curriculum in Hong Kong. He later became one of the most internationally-recognized faces of the 2014 Umbrella Movement protests that called for people in Hong Kong to be given the right to vote for their leader. He would appear on the covers of Western magazines and star in a Netflix documentary, “Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower.”黄之锋于2012年崭露头角，年仅14岁的他当时领导了一场学生运动，反对在香港推行国民教育课程。随后，他在2014年争取行政长官普选的“雨伞运动”中成为最受国际关注的代表人物之一。他曾多次登上西方杂志封面，并成为Netflix纪录片《黄之锋：热血青年vs超级强权》(Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower)的主角。Western legal experts say that Mr. Wong and other pro-democracy activists have not been given fair trials by Hong Kong’s judges, who are handpicked by the city’s chief executive to handle national security cases.西方法律专家指出，负责审理国家安全案件的香港法官均由行政长官指定，黄之锋及其他民主派活动人士未能获得公正审判。“It’s clear that the Hong Kong government has made a decision to keep Joshua behind bars more or less indefinitely,” said Thomas E. Kellogg, the executive director of the Georgetown Center for Asian Law. “They’re doing this precisely because he is a prominent political figure, someone whom Hong Kongers around the world respect and admire.”乔治城大学亚洲法中心执行主任托马斯·E·凯洛格表示：“很明显，香港政府已决定将黄之锋近乎无限期地监禁下去。他们之所以这样做，恰恰是因为他是一位知名政治人物，深受全球香港人的尊敬与爱戴。”“The Hong Kong government may hope that Hong Kongers will forget about him if they put him away for another decade or more,” he continued. “But I don’t think that will happen.”他补充道：“香港政府或许希望，只要再将他关押十年甚至更久，香港人就会渐渐遗忘他。但我认为这不会发生。”David Pierson报道中国外交政策和中国与世界的经济与文化交互。他从事新闻工作已超过20年。翻译：纽约时报中文网点击查看本文英文版。