Lai will however stay in prison because he was sentenced to 20 years weeks ago after being convicted in another case brought under a China-imposed national security law.
There's no question that things are different in Hong Kong without the Apple Daily. Since it folded, the city's once freewheeling press scene has changed drastically, its voice was one of many that ha ...
The 78-year-old outspoken critic of China's ruling Communist Party was sentenced Monday to 20 years in prison for conspiring to commit sedition and collude with foreign forces.
Lai, the 78-year-old founder of the now-defunct Apple Daily newspaper, could face up to life in prison in the case that has stirred criticism from some foreign governments.
Three government-vetted judges found Lai, 78, guilty of conspiring with others to collude with foreign forces to endanger national security and conspiracy to publish seditious articles. He pleaded not ...
