HONG KONG — Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai and nine other pro-democracy activists are expected to be sentenced on Friday after they were found guilty of participating in unauthorized assemblies during anti-government protests in 2019.
It would be the first time that Lai, one of Hong Kong’s most prominent democratic activists, who has been in jail since December after being denied bail in a separate national security trial, will receive a sentence.
About 100 people, including foreign diplomats, queued outside the court early on Friday to get a seat for the hearing.
Lai was found guilty in two separate trials earlier in April for illegal assemblies on August 18 and August …
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