Hong Kong  —  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 charged … The post Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai found guilty in landmark national security trial, faces possible life sentence appeared first on Egypt Independent .