Dec. 14 (UPI) -- A Hong Kong court on Monday convicted Jimmy Lai, one of the city's most prominent pro-democracy figures and the founder of the now-defunct newspaper Apple Daily, in a landmark national security case that stems from months of mass pro-democracy protests that rocked the city in 2019 and 2020.

HONG KONG: Long-awaited verdicts in Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai's national security trial will be delivered on Monday (Dec 15), one of the city's most closely watched rulings sinc

Jimmy Lai spent decades criticizing China’s rulers. He faces up to life in prison after a court found him guilty of national security crimes.

A rags-to-riches tycoon, Hong Kong media boss Jimmy Lai is a self-styled "troublemaker" who has long been a thorn in Beijing's side with his caustic tabloids and unapologetic support for democracy. - Tiananmen watershed - Lai rose from poverty, like many Hong Kong tycoons.

HONG KONG: Jimmy Lai, the Hong Kong media mogul and China critic, was found guilty o

A Hong Kong court will decide on Monday whether pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai is guilty of national security crimes, in a case that has sparked international concern over the city's political freedoms. - On Monday morning, High Court judges Esther Toh, Alex Lee and Susana D'Almada Remedios will decide if Lai is guilty or not guilty of each of the three charges.

Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been found guilty on two counts of foreign collusion and of seditious publication, in one of the Chinese city's highest-profile national security trials.

The 78-year-old faces life in prison.

He founded Apple Daily, a fiercely pro-democracy tabloid known for its sharp criticism of the Chinese Communist Party, before the newspaper was forced to shut down in 2021.

Jimmy Lai, a Hong Kong media tycoon, faces life imprisonment after his national security trial for opposing Beijing's rule.

Jimmy Lai, the pro-democracy former Hong Kong media mogul and outspoken critic of Beijing, was convicted in a landmark national security trial in the city’s court on Monday, which could send him to prison for the rest of his life. Three government-vetted judges found Lai, 78, guilty of conspiring with…

A Hong Kong court has found the media mogul and pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai guilty of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces and of publishing seditious material. The 78 year-old's tabloid newspaper was one of the most vociferous critics of Beijing until it was forced to close in 2021. His trial has been criticised for violating Hong Kong judicial independence and for its crackdown on press freedom. FRANCE 24's Jan Camenzind Broomby tells us more from Taipei.