China jails Hong Kong’s Jimmy Lai for 20 years for saying things it did not like

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(TibetanReview.net, Feb10’26) – China has jailed Hong Kong’s well-known media tycoon Jimmy Lai for what his son sees as a death sentence for the alleged crime, in essence, of nothing more than saying things Beijing did not like. The 78-year-old British citizen was sentenced on Feb 9 to 20 years, with Hong Kong’s Beijing-compliant court demonising his call for respect for democratic rights as threats to China’s national security at the end of his year-long trial last December.

The court of national security judges Esther Toh Lye-ping, Susana Maria D’Almada Remedios and Alex Lee Wan-tang have handed down the sentence to Lai, 78, after they found him guilty on two counts of conspiracy to c...

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