Hong Kong’s pro-democracy former media tycoon Jimmy Lai will be sentenced next Monday.
He was convicted in December under a Beijing-imposed national security law.
Lai, the 78-year-old founder of the now-defunct Apple Daily newspaper, could face up to life in prison in a case that has stirred criticism from some foreign governments.
Lai was an outspoken critic of China’s ruling Communist Party and was arrested in 2020 under the national security law that Beijing deemed necessary for the city’s stability following anti-government protests the previous year.
His trial was widely seen as an indicator of the decline of press freedom in the former British colony.
But the city’s government insists the case has nothing to do with media freedom.
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