Jimmy Lai spent decades criticizing China’s rulers. He faces up to life in prison after a court found him guilty of national security crimes.

Former Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been found guilty on two national security charges and a lesser sedition charge, in a landmark two-year trial widely viewed as a measure of the city’s shrinking freedoms under Beijing’s rule.

Hong Kong's last major opposition party disbanded on Sunday after a vote by its members, the culmination of Chinese pressure on the city's remaining liberal voices in a years-long security crackdown.

Arm China is among the fifth batch of companies brought to Hong Kong by OASES, which has so far drawn more than 102 firms.

These problems first took root as China prepared to assume control of Hong Kong from Britain, in 1997. Concerned that the transition would scare off foreign investors, Chinese leaders tried to woo real-estate tycoons and other business elites by giving them key roles overseeing the city’s future governance.

Jimmy ‌Lai's son ​Sebastien ‍said Britain ​should ​make his ⁠father's release a precondition to ‌closer relations ​with China, ‌after ‍his pro-democracy ⁠campaigner father was found guilty ​of sedition and collusion by Hong Kong's High Court on Monday.