Austin Ramzy

HONG KONG—A Hong Kong court convicted media tycoon Jimmy Lai of violating the Chinese territory’s national-security law, a ruling that could force the 78-year-old mainstay of the city’s battered pro-democracy movement to spend the rest of his life in pris... See more

President Trump said this year that he would do everything he could to save Lai, whose case has been portrayed in the West as an emblem of Chinese political persecution. The U.K. and European Parliament have also called for Lai's release. Chinese