Hong Kong Tycoon Jimmy Lai Among 3 Pleading Guilty to Illegal Assembly

Hong Kong Tycoon Jimmy Lai Among 3 Pleading Guilty to Illegal Assembly
Media mogul Jimmy Lai, founder of Apple Daily, leaves the Court of Final Appeal by prison van in Hong Kong, China on Feb. 9, 2021. Tyrone Siu/File Photo via Reuters
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HONG KONG—Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai and two pro-democracy activists pleaded guilty on Wednesday to charges of participating in an illegal march during mass anti-government protests in 2019.

The plea of guilty to joining the citywide unlawful protest on Aug. 31 that year comes a week after Lai and six more activists were found guilty in a separate court case over unauthorized assembly.