Jimmy Lai
FILE - A 1988 photo provided by China's Xinhua News Agency shows Communist Party Leader Xi Jinping, right, then secretary of the Ningde Prefecture Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), participates in farm work during his investigation in the countryside. Born in Beijing in 1953, Xi enjoyed a privileged youth as the second son of Xi Zhongxun, a former vice premier and guerrilla commander in the civil war that brought Mao Zedong's communist rebels to power in 1949. At 15, Xi Jinping was sent to rural Shaanxi province in 1969 as part of Mao's campaign to have educated urban young people learn from peasants. (AP Photo/Xinhua, File)
President Xi Jinping, China's 'chairman of everything'

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FILE - In this June 4, 2020, file photo, participants light candles during a vigil for the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre at Victoria Park in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, despite applications for it being officially denied. Hong Kong authorities for the second year have banned the June 4 candlelight vigil to commemorate the bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protests in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989, organizers said Thursday, May 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
Hong Kong bans Tiananmen crackdown vigil for 2nd year

By Zen Soo May. 27, 2021 05:25 AM EDT

Pro-democracy activists Lee Cheuk-yan, second from right, and Yeng Sum, a former chairman of the Democratic Party, third from right, speak to media after being released on bail at a court in Hong Kong, Wednesday, April 7, 2021. Three veteran Hong Kong pro-democracy activists, including well-known publisher Jimmy Lai, have pleaded guilty to taking party in an unauthorized rally that resulted in violence between police and participants, media reported Wednesday. (AP Photo/Rafael Wober)
Hong Kong activists plead guilty to joining democracy rally

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FILE - In this July 15, 2020, file photo, pro-democracy activists who were elected from unofficial pro-democracy primaries, including Joshua Wong, left, attend a press conference in Hong Kong. About 50 Hong Kong pro-democracy figures were arrested by police on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021 under a national security law, following their involvement in an unofficial primary election last year held to increase their chances of controlling the legislature, according to local media reports. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)
Hong Kong arrests 53 activists under national security law

By Zen Soo Jan. 05, 2021 08:01 PM EST