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#BREAKING HK legal scholar Benny Tai is sentenced to 10 years in jail as “the brain” of the 2020 primary election project that has been found to be a conspiracy to subvert the state power, the longest sentence delivered so far under the #NSL.

Lee Yue-shun is one of the first two men who walked free out of an #NSL trial, breaking the prosecution’s 100% conviction rate. 45 others are sentenced to years in jail today. Freedom can taste complicated and what can one do with it? Story: rfi.fr/en/internation…

Benny Tai made a landmark speech at his mitigation for the sentence over Occupy Central co-leadership in 2018. He has yet said or published anything this time. Revisit his profile we published upon verdict in May and updated today: nst.com.my/opinion/column…

Former journalist Gwyneth Ho's statement included an impassioned plea to Hong Kongers: "Restore faith in democratic values through action". Ho also called it "comical" for authorities to cast their informal poll as subversion. sg.news.yahoo.com/despondency-de…

The #JimmyLai #NSL collusion trial has been going on for more than 90 days and today the ex-tycoon who has been kept behind bars since late 2020 will step into the witness box, breaking the silence he has kept in 5 previous trials over 4 years. france24.com/en/live-news/2…

Lai denied a drastic change in Apple Daily’s coverage and his own political stand after 2014. He said the newspaper had all long covered social movements and only seemed to be more active when it had to respond as the city saw more movements in the past decade. #developing

Talkative and commandeering as he testified in court Wednesday, Hong Kong media mogul #JimmyLai still seemed like a man used to being in charge despite spending most of the last four years in jail. w/Holmes Chan Rebecca Bailey barrons.com/news/the-boss-…

Have signed off from my last day in the extraordinary journey with AFP (and the press) If someone requests interview in my name as an AFP (or any outlet) reporter, that’s not me. But like HK, there is still one last story up in the sleeve. Meanwhile: youtube.com/watch?v=zt-_x_…