Jimmy Lai’s 20-Year Sentence Follows Beijing’s Playbook on Dissent
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Jimmy Lai has been sentenced to 20 years. The sentence is seen as part of a pattern of response to dissent. The sentence appears to follow a standard approach used by Beijing in similar cases.
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