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Open this photo in gallery: Jimmy Lai, founder of Apple Daily, looks on as he leaves the Court of Final Appeal by prison van in Hong Kong in 2021.Tyrone Siu/Reuters A campaign is under way to obtain Canadian citizenship for jailed Hong Kong publisher Jimmy Lai, currently on trial under a Beijing-imposed national-security law that critics say is emblematic of the erosion of rights and freedoms in the former British colony. Mr. Lai, a British citizen and publisher of the former pro-democracy Apple Daily newspaper, was arrested and charged in December, 2020. Apple Daily was shuttered permanently six months later,…
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