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MPs DESTROY ‘weak’ Starmer’s betrayal of Jimmy Lai in FIERY Commons clash
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Shadow Foreign Secretary Priti Patel asked an urgent House of Commons urgent question on Jimmy Lai, the former Hong Kong media mogul and outspoken critic of Beijing, was sentenced on Monday to serve 20-years in prison in one of the highest-profile cases prosecuted under a China-imposed national security law that has effectively stifled dissent in the city.
In December, three government-appointed judges found Lai, 78, guilty of conspiring with others to collude with foreign forces to endanger national security and conspiracy to publish seditious articles.
Lai, who denied all charges, faced a maximum sentence of life imprisonment under Hong Kong’s security law, which Beijing insisted was essential for maintaining stability in the Chinese special administrative region.
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