HONG KONG - Jimmy Lai, a Hong Kong pro-democracy campaigner and former media baron, was sentenced Monday to 20 years in prison after he was convicted of subversion and collusion under a Beijing-decreed national security law.
The founder of the now-folded Apple Daily was given the heaviest sentence ever handed down among some 160 people convicted since the security legislation came into force in 2020.
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