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FILE - In this July 1, 2020, file photo, Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai pauses during an interview in Hong Kong. Governments around the world are taking advantage of the coronavirus pandemic to justify crackdowns on press freedom. Lai was arrested in Hong Kong earlier in August 2020 as police enforced a new national security law. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File)

How COVID-19 gives cover to press crackdowns the world over

By MAE ANDERSON - Associated Press

Hong Kong media tycoon and newspaper founder Jimmy Lai, sits in a car as he leaves a police station after being bailed out in Hong Kong, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020. The rounding up of the paper’s founder Jimmy Lai, the previous day and a raid on its headquarters have reinforced fears that a new national security law will be used to suppress dissent in Hong Kong after months of anti-government protests.(AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Hong Kong media tycoon relieved he wasn’t sent to China

By ZEN SOO - Associated Press

Chinese President Xi Jinping is rumored to be engaged in a power struggle that has shifted rhetoric and heightened military readiness. (Associated Press/File)

China sanctions 11 US politicians, heads of organizations

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

In this July 30, 2020, file photo, Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai, founder of the local newspaper Apple Daily, arrives a district court in Hong Kong. An aide to Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai says Lai was arrested Monday morning, Aug. 10, 2020, under the city’s national security law on suspicion of collusion with foreign powers. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai arrested, newsroom searched

By Zen Soo - Associated Press

Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai pauses during an interview Hong Kong Wednesday, July 1, 2020. Lai said in an interview Wednesday that Hong Kong is dead under the new national security law. Lai, who owns popular newspaper Apple Daily, is a prominent advocate for democracy in Hong Kong. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

AP Interview: Hong Kong media tycoon says city now ‘dead’

By ZEN SOO - Associated Press

Illustration on the persecution of Jimmy Lai by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

U.S. must demand that China release freedom fighter Jimmy Lai

By Clifford D. May

Founder of Hong Kong's Apple Daily newspaper, Jimmy Lai, walks out from a police station after being bailed out in Hong Kong, Friday, Feb. 28, 2020. Hong Kong's Apple Daily newspaper says the outspoken head of its publishing group, Lai, has been held by police over his participation in a protest march in August that was part of a months-long pro-democracy movement. (Lam Chun Tung/The Initium Media via AP)

Publisher, 2 politicians charged over Hong Kong protests

Associated Press