Hong kong pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai during an interview with AFP at the Next Digital offices in Hong Kong on June 16, 2020

Hong kong pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai during an interview with AFP at the Next Digital offices in Hong Kong on June 16, 2020

 Anthony WALLACE

Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai will be sentenced on Monday following his national security trial, a court website showed.

The 78-year-old founder of the now-defunct Apple Daily newspaper was found guilty in December of foreign collusion under the city's sweeping national security law, which Beijing imposed following huge and sometimes violent pro-democracy protests in 2019.

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