This is The Guardian.

The Hong Kong media tycoon and pro-democracy campaign and Jimmy Lai has been sentenced to 20 years

in prison on charges of foreign collusion and sedition.

He has long been outspoken as a critic of the Chinese Communist Party in Hong Kong. He had the opportunity to leave Hong Kong many times over when it was clear that the net was closing in and he chose not to. He said, I'm a Hong Konger, I will stay here. It's definitely by far the harshest sentence that's been given out. At 78, 20 years he'll be close to 100, so basically a death sentence.

You know the realisation that I might never see my father again,

it's hit a lot harder than I thought it would.

He's 78, he's lost a lot of weight, he's diabetic.

He had been kept in solitary confinement for most of the past five years.

People are saying it's tantamount

to a life sentence that he may die in prison. From the Guardians today in Focus, this is the latest

with me, Lucy Hath. Well, joining me is Amy Hawkins, Senior China Correspondent. Hi, Lucy.

So British citizen, Jimmy Lai, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison in Hong Kong.

Just before we get into the detail of that sentence, remind us who he is and why his case is so significant.

Yeah, so Jimmy Lai is a 78-year-old British citizen.

Well, he once was one of Hong Kong's richest men.

He had this kind of rags to

rich's story of arriving in Hong Kong as a child refugee, working his way up the factory floor,

and then going into business and becoming a massive media mogul. And lots of people described

him as the Rupert Murdoch of Asia. But unlike other Hong Kong billionaires, he was always

very outspoken against the Chinese Communist Party.

He has been a long time pro-democracy activist in Hong Kong.

Yeah, and he was first arrested in 2020, right, under new harsh national security,

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