Hong Kong jails Jimmy Lai for 20 years
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PRO-democracy activist Jimmy Lai has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after being convicted of national security offences in Hong Kong. The Brit media tycoon, 78, was arrested in 2020 amid a
By Jessie Pang and James Pomfret HONG KONG, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Hong Kong's High Court will begin on Thursday a landmark subversion trial of the leaders of a group that once organised annual commemorations of Beijing's Tiananmen Square crackdown on student-led pro-democracy protests in 1989.
A prominent activist who organized Hong Kong’s decades-old vigil commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown has defended their demand for ending "one-party rule” in court
The UK foreign secretary has said a 20-year jail term handed down by a Hong Kong court to pro-democracy campaigner Jimmy Lai is "tantamount to a life sentence".
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