Pro-democracy advocate and former media mogul Jimmy Lai has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.
He was convicted in a Hong Kong court last year on charges of endangering national security and conspiracy to publish seditious articles. The punishment is the longest punishment given so far under a China-imposed national security law.
Lai, the founder of the now-defunct Apple Daily, has long been a target of the Chinese ruling party because of his free-speech views. His daughter, Claire Lai, speaks with Here & Now’s Indira Lakshmanan, who also spoke with Claire Lai following her father’s conviction last year.
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