‘Curtain falls on Hong Kong press freedom’: Jimmy Lai prison sentence sparks outcry
Hong Kong’s most prominent China critic, media tycoon Jimmy Lai, was sentenced on Monday to 20 years in jail under the city’s controversial national security law, in what rights groups condemned as “effectively a death sentence” and a symbol of the city’s shrivelling press freedoms.
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