Since being arrested in 2020, publisher Jimmy Lai has spent more than 1,800 days in custody and almost two months testifying on the stand.

A Hong Kong court will deliver its verdict next week in the national security trial of former Apple Daily publisher Jimmy Lai .

If convicted, the 78-year-old faces up to life in prison, and his family have warned even a short sentence could see him die behind bars, given his age and worsening health after five years in detention, much of it spent in solitary confinement.

A long-standing critic of China and booster of Hong Kong’s now-neutered pro-democracy movement, Mr. Lai was first arrested in 2020 amid a crackdown which followed months of anti-government protests the year before. He was charged under a national security law imposed on Hong Kong b

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