From Global News.

Former Hong Kong pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai has been convicted in a landmark national security trial.

The government-vetted judges on Monday found Lai guilty of conspiring with others to collude with foreign forces to endanger national security and conspiracy to publish seditious articles.

Speaking from London, England, on Monday, Lai’s son, Sebastien Lai said the verdict did not come as a surprise to the family but criticized the decision as a black mark on Hong Kong’s legal system.

“None of the evidence that has been brought about is incriminating to my father. But the fact that the Hong Kong government would go through with it, essentially, is because they’re vindictive,” he said.

“They’re vindictive and cruel.”

Under Hong Kong’s sweeping new national security law, Lai could face up to life imprisonment.

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