Jimmy Lai sentenced to 20 years: How justice is served

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  Cutting through an overload of information to get to the heart of the story.

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  This is The Point.

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  Jimmy Lai, a key instigator of the anti-China riots in Hong Kong,

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  has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.

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  On December the 15th last year,

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  the founder of the now defunct Apple Daily was convicted on one account of conspiracy to publish seditious materials and on two counts of conspiracy to collude with external forces to endanger national security.

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  The Hong Kong SAR government welcomed the verdict saying the conviction demonstrates that righteousness is upheld by the law and that the law never allows anyone,

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  regardless of profession or background,

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  to harm their country and compatriots under the guise of human rights, democracy and freedom.

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  Some Western politicians and media, however,

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  have portrayed the case as a symbol of declining press freedom or freedom of expression in Hong Kong.

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  Was the 20-year sentence appropriate?

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  How did the court arrive at this sentence?

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  And what is the case signal going forward?

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  Welcome to the point, an opinion coming to you from Beijing.

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  I'm Lee Xin.

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  I'm pleased to be joined from Hong Kong Special Administrative Region by Edward Lehman,

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  co-founder and chairman of Lehman Bush Hong Kong and advisory body to provide investment,

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  strategic planning and advisory organizations specialized in cross-border merchant banking,

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  trade and finance.

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