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(9 Feb 2026) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ASSOCIATED PRESS Hong Kong - 9 February 2026 ++STARTS ON SOUNDBITE++ 1. SOUNDBITE (English) Rafael Wober, The Associated Press: "On a cold and windy morning, this court in Hong Kong has just sentenced British citizen Jimmy Lai to twenty years in prison. He's already 78-years-old, so that means that he may not survive to get out from behind bars." ASSOCIATED PRESS ARCHIVE: Hong Kong - 11 December 2014 2. Various of Lai being arrested by police and chanting with fellow protesters in Cantonese: "I want universal suffrage" ASSOCIATED PRESS ARCHIVE: Hong Kong - 3 December 2020 3. Tracking of Lai in handcuffs getting out of Correctional Services Department van as he is taken into custody ASSOCIATED PRESS ARCHIVE: Hong Kong - 23 December 2020 ++NIGHT SHOTS++ 4. Wide of Lai walking out of Hong Kong High Court after being granted bail 5. Mid of Lai getting into car leaving ASSOCIATED PRESS Hong Kong - 9 February 2026 6. SOUNDBITE (English) Rafael Wober, The Associated Press: "His crimes, according to the prosecution, two counts of National Security Law crimes and also a crime of sedition, inciting the publishing of seditious materials. He plead not guilty." ASSOCIATED PRESS ARCHIVE: Hong Kong - 18 August 2019 7. Various of Lai holding a white banner participating in protest 8. Top shot of protest ASSOCIATED PRESS Hong Kong - 9 February 2026 9. SOUNDBITE (English) Rafael Wober, The Associated Press: "Together with him, some of his former colleagues from his former newspaper, Apple Daily, also got sentenced but their sentences were much lower, between six and ten years." ASSOCIATED PRESS ARCHIVE: Hong Kong - 15 December 1995 ++4:3++ 10. Mid of reception area of Apple Daily office 11. Mid of head of Apple Daily Jimmy Lai walking into newsroom ASSOCIATED PRESS Hong Kong - 9 February 2026 12. SOUNDBITE (English) Rafael Wober, The Associated Press: "Also we saw his wife arriving at court together with a prominent Catholic priest, Cardinal Joseph Zen, and when she left, she was surrounded by a huge scrum of reporters, camera people but she didn't say anything, got in her car, and was driven away." ASSOCIATED PRESS ARCHIVE: Hong Kong - 9 February 2021 13. Wide of prison van arriving outside Court of Final Appeal 14. Wide of Lai getting out of prison van near court 15. Wide of Lai walking into inflatable tunnel toward court ASSOCIATED PRESS Hong Kong - 9 February 2026 16. SOUNDBITE (English) Rafael Wober, The Associated Press: "So now, Jimmy Lai, we are just waiting for his prison van to take him back behind bars and we should remember though, that he does have a chance to appeal. So far there has been no comment on that but he supposed to come up with a decision within the next 28 days, of whether he is going to take that route." ASSOCIATED PRESS ARCHIVE: Hong Kong - 31 August 2019 17. Mid of Lai participating in protest, chanting UPSOUND (Cantonese): "Hong Kong people keep going." ASSOCIATED PRESS ARCHIVE: Hong Kong - 4 June 2020 18. Wide of Lai and activists holding lit candles and chanting slogans at Victoria Park commemorating June 4 massacre in Beijing 1989 19. Pan of activists holding lit candles and chanting slogans STORYLINE: Jimmy Lai, the pro-democracy former Hong Kong media tycoon and a fierce critic of Beijing, was sentenced on Monday to 20 years in prison in the longest punishment given so far under a China-imposed national security law that has virtually silenced the city’s dissent. The maximum penalty for his conviction was life imprisonment. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...