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Hong Kong: Jimmy Lai, a Hong Kong media mogul and one of the city’s most prominent pro-democracy figures, was arrested on Monday under Beijing’s new national security law, a close aide and a police source said.
“Jimmy Lai is being arrested for collusion with foreign powers at this time,” Mark Simon, a colleague of Lai’s, wrote on Twitter.
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