Jimmy Lai is sentenced to twenty years in prison

The Hong Kong media tycoon and pro-democracy campaigner, Jimmy Lai, who's seventy-eight and a British citizen, had been found guilty of foreign collusion and sedition. His family says the sentence is cruel and draconian.

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(Photo: Media mogul Jimmy Lai Chee-ying, founder of Apple Daily, walks to a prison van; Credit: Tyrone Siu/Reuters)