Amid the raging anti-establishment protests around the world and the lingering euphoria from the spectacular repudiation last week of President Donald Trump in the US midterm elections, the chilling ten-year sentence slapped on November 5 on Hong Kong’s pioneering pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong might be mistaken for a dark relic from a bygone era. Not when viewed alongside the harsh 20-year sentence imposed this February on Jimmy Lai, a 78-year uncompromising champion of civil liberties and a media mogul whom China blames as the mastermind behind the democracy movement. Or, for that matter, the severe sentences that were handed down…
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