The media mogul and distinguished pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai has been sentenced to twenty years in jail in Hong Kong for nationwide safety offences. His household has described the sentence as ‘heartbreakingly merciless’, given the 78-year-old’s declining well being. Lai was convicted in December on prices of sedition and conspiracy to collude with international forces, after pleading not responsible to all prices. Lucy Hough speaks to the Guardian’s senior China correspondent, Amy Hawkins – watch on YouTube
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