Jimmy Lai will be sentenced alongside eight co-defendants on Monday (Feb 9), including six executives of the now-defunct Apple Daily newspaper. HONG KONG: Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai will be sentenced on Monday (Feb 9) following his national security trial , a court website showed. The 78-year-old founder of the now-defunct Apple Daily newspaper was found guilty in December of foreign collusion under the city's sweeping national security law, which Beijing imposed following