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UK calls for release of Hong Kong tycoon Jimmy Lai as trial starts

Sky News Monday, 18 December 2023
Britain has called on China to end its prosecution of media tycoon and pro-democracy campaigner Jimmy Lai whose long-awaited national security trial has started in Hong Kong.
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 A long-awaited national security trial opened in Hong Kong on Monday (December 18) for leading China critic and media tycoon Jimmy Lai. Flora Bradley-Watson reports.

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