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With his campaigning for democracy in Hong Kong, Jimmy Lai had long been a thorn in China’s side.
The newspaper tycoon is the most high-profile of the handful of arrests so far made under Hong Kong’s suffocating new national-security law.
Mr Lai's newspapers are both wildly popular in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and deeply suspicious of the Communist Party.
The details of his alleged crimes have not been released, save that he “colluded with a foreign country”, a crime that carries a potential life sentence.
His arrest is the latest blow to free speech. It has not taken long for Hong Kong's new law to to send a chill through a once-feisty city.
Click the link in our bio to read how Jimmy Lai became a prime target for China's leaders, and what his detention means for Hong Kong.
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