Pro-democracy activist and media tycoon Jimmy Lai was sentenced to 20 years in prison in Hong Kong on Monday, effectively a life sentence given his age and reportedly poor health in detention.
Human-rights groups and foreign governments denounced the harsh sentence, but China dismissed such criticism as an assault on the “sovereignty” of Hong Kong – which is now a fully-controlled puppet state of Beijing.
Lai, 78, was convicted of “national security” offenses in December under the tyrannical laws China imposed on Hong Kong to crush the 2019 pro-democracy uprising. The ruling claimed that Lai “colluded with foreign forces” in a “seditious” plot…
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