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 simultaneously against former employees of Mr Lai’s highly influential newspaper, Apple Daily, which was........

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