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AP gets rare glimpse of jailed Hong Kong pro-democracy publisher Jimmy Lai (apnews.com)

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[–] socsa@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Literally ran a newspaper which espoused democracy and independent governance (Hong Kong status quo at the time).

You might also be interested to learn that democratically elected legislators in Hong Kong were arrested en masse from the floor of their legislative building for the exact same reason. It's as bad as it sounds.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Link me that information from any source that actually reports on it fully. I'm just trying to understand what actually happened there.