Lai's supporters say this amounts to a death sentence, but authorities say it demonstrates the rule of law.

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

HONG KONG – Jimmy Lai, the former Hong Kong media tycoon and fierce critic of Beijing, is set to be sentenced Monday in one ...

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Prominent democracy advocate Jimmy Lai was a child stowaway from mainland China who rose to become Hong Kong’s onetime media ...

Former Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai has become what observers say is a symbol of the 2020 crackdown on press freedoms in ...

Former Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been sentenced to 20 years in prison, ending a years-long legal battle that has come to define Beijing’s transformational crackdown on the once-freewheeling ...

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.

A Hong Kong court has sentenced media mogul Jimmy Lai to 20 years in prison. Lai had already been in detention for more than five years while serving a separate prison term on fraud charges. Lai was ...

Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai is set to be sentenced Monday after his conviction in a landmark national security ...

A massive fire in Hong Kong last November killed 168 people, devastating a tight-knit community. Residents displaced by the ...

Lai was convicted in December on charges related to national security.