Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai sentenced to total of 20 years in national security trial
Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai was sentenced on Monday (February 9) to a total of 20 years in jail on national security charges comprising two counts of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces and one of publishing seditious materials. 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 August 2020 and convicted last year.
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