Pro-democracy Hong Kong publisher Jimmy Lai was found guilty Tuesday on a pair of fraud charges related to lease violations — the latest of a series of prosecutions apparently aimed at punishing him for his past activism.
Lai had been arrested during a crackdown on the pro-democracy movement following widespread protests in 2019 under the city’s sweeping Beijing-imposed National Security Law. He is already serving a 20-month sentence for his role in unauthorized assemblies.
