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Cassie Maas | U. Pittsburgh School of Law, US May 17, 2021 09:48:19 am Hong Kong’s Security Bureau announced Friday that it had frozen assets belonging to pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai Chee-ying. This was the first time that authorities used the seizure powers granted to them under the new national security law . Lai was arrested under national security law in August when authorities raided his newspaper’s headquarters. In April, he and two other pro-democracy activists were found guilty and sentenced for unauthorized assembly during the 2019 protests in Hong Kong. Lai was found guilty in two separate trials...
