Jimmy Lai, 76, broke into the city's once freewheeling media world about three decades ago, armed with the belief that delivering information is equal to protecting freedom.
Prominent pro-democracy activist Agnes Chow, who recently revealed that she had left Hong Kong to study in Canada with no plans to return, recalls in an online interview that agreeing to spend time in mainland China before her departure overseas was a high-stakes decision for her.
A judge on Saturday imposed a maximum three-year prison sentence on five youths who were members of a Hong Kong organisation that promoted independence from Chinese authority for calling for a "armed revolution" in a case involving national security.
The five admitted to "inciting others to subvert state power" through a group called "Returning Valiant," despite the fact that some of them were minors between the ages of 15 and 18 at the time of the accused offence.
Two more, aged 21 and 26, will get their sentences at a later time.
HONG KONG, Sept 29 Former Hong Kong opposition lawmaker Ted Hui was sentenced in absentia on Thursday to three-and-a-half years in jail, after a court found that he misled.