The former pro-democracy newspaper publisher was sentenced for offences under the controversial national security law.

The media tycoon, a Chinese-born British citizen, had been a persistent critic of Beijing. The sentence is the harshest penalty so far under a national security law.

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Who is Jimmy Lai? British citizen and democracy activist sentenced in Hong Kong - Jimmy Lai has already spent 1,800 days in ...

Jimmy Lai, the pro-democracy former Hong Kong media tycoon and a fierce critic of Beijing, was sentenced to 20 years in ...

The case against Lai, a 78-year-old media tycoon and critic of China’s ruling Communist Party, has become a symbol of Beijing ...

Jimmy Lai, the pro-democracy former Hong Kong media tycoon and a fierce critic of Beijing, has been sentenced to 20 years in ...

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The sentence ends a legal saga spanning almost five years, and Hong Kong's most high-profile national security hearing. Lai, founder of the now-shuttered Apple Daily newspaper, was first arrested in A ...

Jimmy Lai, who has been jailed for 20 years, always said he owed Hong Kong, a city that had given him "everything".

The 78-year-old, who has been jailed for 20 years, was a prominent advocate for democracy in the former British territory.