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Forty-five pro-democracy activists, journalists and ex-lawmakers were sentenced to prison terms of four to 10 years on Tuesday in Hong Kong’s largest national security trial. The case, rooted in their participation in a 2020 unofficial primary election,

Jimmy Lai, who is charged with national security offenses, testified that his newspaper “carried a torch to the reality” of people’s desire for freedom in the city.

The defendants were prosecuted under a sweeping law imposed by Beijing that crushed a once-thriving pro-democracy movement.

Hong Kong’s total private wealth assets under management rose slightly last year to about HK$9 trillion ($1.2 trillion), the first annual growth since 2020, according to a report released on Friday.

Pro-democracy activist and media mogul Jimmy Lai took the stand Wednesday in his national security trial in Hong Kong.

Jailed former Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai took the stand for the first time Wednesday in his trial on conspiracy to collude with foreign powers and publishing seditious anti-government material after a harsh new national security law was imposed by Beijing in 2020.

Former publisher Jimmy Lai has denied that he asked a colleague to draft a list of potential sanction targets in testimony at his landmark national security trial in Hong Kong.

Pro-democracy activist and media mogul Jimmy Lai took the stand Wednesday in his national security trial in Hong Kong.

Lai has been accused of sedition and foreign collusion. He has been held in solitary confinement since December 2020.

Jailed former Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai took the stand for the first time Wednesday in his trial on conspiracy to collude with foreign powers and publishing seditious anti-government material.

Sebastien Lai, son of jailed Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai, joins Andrea Mitchell to discuss his father’s imprisonment and political censorship in Hong Kong. Lai talks about the erosion of civil liberties and advocates for global attention to the suppression of freedoms under Hong Kong's national security law.

The United States vowed Tuesday to impose visa restrictions on Hong Kong officials responsible for sentencing 45 pro-democracy leaders and advocates to lengthy prison terms.

Jimmy Lai, the pugnacious Hong Kong media tycoon whose now shuttered tabloid Apple Daily was a regular thorn in Beijing’s side, took the stand Wednesday in his own defense for the first time in a high stakes national security trial that could send him to prison for life.

The sentencing of 47 pro-democracy activists and the trial of medial mogul Jimmy Lai show how Hong Kong’s courts are a tool for repression, legal analysts say.