ABC News (Australia) published this video item, entitled “Jailed Jimmy Lai newly sentenced, as China tightens its grip on Hong Kong | The World” – below is their description.
China has bolstered its control over Hong Kong, approving sweeping changes to the territory’s electoral system. The move has already been criticised by u-s secretary of state Antony Blinken, who said it would prevent people in Hong Kong from meaningful participation in their own governance. The changes were sparked by those huge pro-democracy protests in the city in 2019, during which authorities arrested several democratic activists. One of those, media tycoon Jimmy Lai, already sitting in prison, has now had further jail time added to his sentence
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In This Story: Hong Kong
Hong Kong, officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China (HKSAR), is a metropolitan area and special administrative region of the People’s Republic of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta of the South China Sea. With over 7.5 million residents of various nationalities in a 1,104-square-kilometre (426 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated places in the world.
Hong Kong became a colony of the British Empire after the Qing Empire ceded Hong Kong Island at the end of the First Opium War in 1842. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 after the Second Opium War and was further extended when Britain obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898. The whole territory was transferred to China in 1997. As a special administrative region, Hong Kong maintains separate governing and economic systems from that of mainland China under the principle of “one country, two systems”.