Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai found guilty in landmark national security trial, faces possible life sentence

Former Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been found guilty on two national security charges and a lesser sedition charge, in a landmark two-year trial widely viewed as a measure of the city’s shrinking freedoms under Beijing’s rule. Self-made billionaire Lai, 78, is one of the highest-profile critics of Beijing who has been charged [...] The post Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai found guilty in landmark national security trial, faces possible life sentence appeared first on Kahawatungu .