As of this Tuesday, Sept. 26, the billionaire newspaper publisher and human rights activist Jimmy Lai will have spent 1,000 days in a Hong Kong prison for practicing democracy without a license.
After some 2 million of Hong Kong’s 7.4 million residents protested China’s 2019 attempt to disassemble the rule of law in the city, the Chinese Communist Party responded by imposing the 2020 national security law that has essentially criminalized free speech.