UK To Engage With China After Jimmy Lai’s 20Year Sentence.
A Hong Kong court jailed pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai for 20 years after he was found guilty of national security offences in December. This is the harshest sentence to be given under the controversial national security law, which China says is necessary for the city's stability. Lai, who holds a British passport, was one of the loudest critics of Beijing, often wielding his pro-democracy paper, Apple Daily, as a tool […]