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Hong Kong mogul Jimmy Lai’s jailing sparks outcry

FRANCE 24’s Mark Owen speaks with Thibault Bruttin, Director General of Reporters Sans Frontières, about the sentencing of Hong Kong democracy advocate and media magnate Jimmy Lai. The 78-year-old was sentenced to 20 years in prison after being found guilty in December of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces and conspiring with others to publish seditious articles.

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