The sentence, imposed under the National Security Law enforced by Beijing in 2020, will be served consecutively to the sentence he is already serving, totaling nearly 26 years of imprisonment.
Jimmy Lai, former pro-democracy media tycoon from Hong Kong, sentenced to 20 years in prison
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