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Lai, 78, was convicted of conspiring to collude with foreign forces to endanger national security and conspiracy to publish seditious articles. He pleaded not guilty.

The business mogul and activist has been in ailing health and has already spent more than 1,800 days in solitary confinement in Hong Kong before his guilty verdict.

Jimmy Lai spent decades criticizing China’s rulers. He faces up to life in prison after a court found him guilty of national security crimes.

Former Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been found guilty on two national security charges and a lesser sedition charge, in a landmark two-year trial widely viewed as a measure of the city’s shrinking freedoms under Beijing’s rule.

The business mogul and activist has been in ailing health and has already spent more than 1,800 days in solitary confinement in Hong Kong before his verdict.

The pro-democracy activist, 78, had pleaded not guilty to charges of sedition and colluding with foreign forces and faces life in prison.

Former Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been found guilty on two national security charges and a lesser sedition charge, in a landmark two-year trial widely viewed as a measure of the city’s ...

Officials had cast Mr. Lai, a pro-democracy media tycoon, as the mastermind of protests that roiled the city in 2019. He could face life in prison.

Lai, one of the fiercest critics of the Chinese state, faces a maximum sentence of life in prison if convicted.

Judges in Hong Kong will hand down a verdict in the landmark national security trial of the media tycoon and pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai on Monday, bringing to a close a five-year-old case that ...

The pro-democracy activist, 78, has pleaded not guilty to charges of sedition and colluding with foreign forces and faces life in prison if convicted.

It was the culmination of Chinese pressure on the city's remaining liberal voices in a years-long security crackdown.

Hong Kong's biggest pro-democracy party voted Sunday to dissolve after more than 30 years of activism, marking the end of an era of the Chinese semiautonomous city 's once-diverse political landscape.

These problems first took root as China prepared to assume control of Hong Kong from Britain, in 1997. Concerned that the transition would scare off foreign investors, Chinese leaders tried to woo ...