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The article notes that this was the first prosecution of its kind under the relevant law, raising questions about the authorities' treatment of organizations associated with the democracy movement.

The article also highlights the much harsher case of Jimmy Lai, the Catholic businessman and former publisher of Apple Daily.

Silenced in February 2026 to 20 years in prison under Hong Kong's national security legislation, the 78-year-old has been detained since December 2020.

Cardinal Zen has remained publicly associated with Lai and his family throughout the proceedings.

Your father was one of the most successful businessmen in Hong Kong.

He founded a newspaper with the idea that information is choice and, and choice is freedom.

Apple Daily became the most popular newspaper in Hong Kong.

With the passing of the national security law, everybody knew that my father was gonna be ma- one of the main targets.

Your father is a British citizen.

He's been in there for more than 2,000 days in solitary confinement for the whole time.

All, all of these things are aimed to break him.

How difficult is it for you to manage that on a totally personal level? Jimmy Lai is a successful businessman who is the founder of Apple Daily, the newspaper that became one of the loudest voices for the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong.

Jimmy Lai embodied that.

Apple Daily, you know, his, his newspaper embodied that.

And, um, the Chinese have just systematically set out to crush him and that spirit.

It's a tragedy.

Hopefully fruitful.

Lai, 78 years old, a devout Catholic and founder of Apple Daily, was sentenced to 20 years under Hong Kong's national security law.

His praise released.

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