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Hong Kong court begins Day 2 of activist publisher Jimmy Lai s trial

The national security trial of Hong Kong's famous activist publisher Jimmy Lai entered its second day Tuesday, with judges expected to rule by the end of the week on his lawyers' bid to throw out a sedition charge that has been increasingly used to target dissidents. Lai, 76, was arrested in August 2020 during a crackdown on the city’s pro-democracy movement following massive protests in 2019.

Hong Kong s activist publisher Jimmy Lai to stand trial this week under Beijing s crackdown on dissidents | World News

Jimmy Lai, 76, broke into the city's once freewheeling media world about three decades ago, armed with the belief that delivering information is equal to protecting freedom.

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