Jimmy Lai, Hong Kong pro-democracy figure, sentenced to 20 years in prison for national security offences

Sentencing of media tycoon is the culmination of a years-long saga that critics say represents Hong Kong's transformation from a mostly free city to one where dissent is fiercely suppressed

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Jimmy Lai, the media mogul and prominent pro-democracy activist, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison in Hong Kong for national security offences, a punishment his daughter said could mean he will die a martyr behind bars".

Claire Lai said the sentence was heartbreakingly cruel" given her 78-year-old father's declining health, while her brother Sebastien Lai called the sentence draconian" and devastating".