Hong Kong’s Jimmy Lai sentenced to 20 years in prison after landmark national security trial

By Chris Lau, CNN (CNN) — Former Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been sentenced to 20 years in prison, ending a years-long legal battle that has come to define Beijing’s transformational crackdown on the once-freewheeling financial hub. The 78-year-old self-made billionaire was among the highest-profile government critics charged since Beijing imposed a sweeping