HK Authorities Use Dodgy Charge to Convict Publisher Lai
Beijing delivers another blow to personal and press freedom in Hong Kong
The most troubling aspect of the widely expected October 25 conviction of democracy advocate and media tycoon Jimmy Lai in a Hong Kong district court is that, clearly, the government had to search long and hard for a crime to fit whatever punishment is in store for the 74-year-old Lai.
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