Jimmy Lai, 78, the founder of Apple Daily, has been sentenced by a Hong Kong court to 20 years in prison after being convicted on two counts of violating the 2020 national security law and one count of sedition over his publication of 161 pro-democracy articles while serving as editor, with a panel of hand-picked judges stating there was “no doubt” Lai had harbored “resentment and hatred of the PRC,” as security chief John Lee accused him of using Apple Daily to “poison the minds of citizens, incite hatred, distort facts, deliberately create social division, glorify violence, and openly beg external forces to sanction China and Hong Kong.”
What do you think?
“Way to make Jimmy a martyr. Nothing gets a girl more wet than watching a guy ‘openly beg’ for democratic reforms.“
“The system works!”
“Sentencing him to twenty years feels like a lot of confidence in the persuasive power of newspapers.”
Leung Siu-yan, 36
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