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Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday met with Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu, who is on his maiden duty visit to Beijing, and gave full recognition to his courageous and pragmatic work in leading the city government in safeguarding national security, reviving the vitality of the economy and enabling Hong Kong to display a new atmosphere of patriots administering Hong Kong.

Jimmy Lai, a Hong Kong media mogul and founder of Apple Daily, is facing trial. Beijing is already proposing a legal change to ensure he is likely to be jailed.

A Hong Kong court on Saturday sentenced Lai, an instigator of the Hong Kong riots in 2019, to five years and nine months in prison over two fraud charges linked to lease violations.

Hong Kong political and legal figures said the SAR would face a national security risk if Jimmy Lai Chee-ying were to be allowed to have a UK barrister as his counsel.

The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government, Sports Federation & Olympic Committee of Hong Kong, China (SF&OC), Hong Kong Rugby Union (HKRU) strongly condemned a rugby sevens tournament in South Korea after the organizer played a wrong song associated with the violent protests in 2019 instead of China’s National Anthem at the final match on Sunday, and some lawmakers and observers called the error “completely unacceptable.”