Plight of imprisoned Hong Kong ex-publisher Jimmy Lai evokes grief over loss of press freedoms

Taiwan

HONG KONG (AP) — Nearly five years after Hong Kong’s pro-democracy Apple Daily shut down, its founder, Jimmy Lai , jailed, the newspaper’s former staff and readers are lamenting the loss of the city’s press freedoms. Lai, 78, was sentenced Monday under a Beijing-imposed national security law to 20 years in prison , the longest such sentence so far. His co-defendants, six other former Apple Daily journalists, received jail terms ranging between six years and nine months and 10 years. Officials