‘Curtain falls on Hong Kong press freedom’: Jimmy Lai prison sentence sparks outcry

by | Feb 9, 2026 | news, Top News

Hong Kong’s most prominent China critic, media tycoon Jimmy Lai, was sentenced on Monday to 20 years in jail under the city’s controversional national security law, in what rights groups condemned as “effectively a death sentence” and a symbol of the city’s shrivelling press freedoms. 

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Written by Albert Pham, News Curator and Blogger

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