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    Landmark national security trial opens in Hong Kong for prominent activist publisher Jimmy Lai

    by Kanis Leung Dec 18, 2023 3 minutes
    Source: Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

    A landmark national security trial opened Monday in Hong Kong for prominent activist publisher Jimmy Lai, who faces a possible life sentence if convicted under a law imposed by Beijing to crush dissidents.

    Lai, 76, was arrested in August 2020 during a crackdown on the city's pro-democracy movement under the sweeping national security law enacted following huge protests four years ago. He is charged with colluding with foreign forces to endanger national security and conspiring with others to put

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