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The disgusting face of a brutal dictatorship: Jimmy Lai, the Hong Kong pro-democracy media mogul who spent decades as a defiant thorn in Beijing’s side, was sentenced on Monday to 20 years in prison, the harshest penalty ever handed down for a national security offense in the semiautonomous territory. 6 of his staff at Apple Daily got between 6 and 10 years. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02/08/world/jimmy-lai-sentenced-hong-kong?unlocked_article_code=1.K1A.N-Pm.Oss7FNl-BOer&smid=url-share