Balanced News: Hong Kong jails pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai for fraud

A Hong Kong court sentenced a pro-democracy media tycoon to five years and nine months in prison on Saturday over two fraud charges linked to lease violations, the latest of a series of cases against prominent activists that critics say are aimed at crushing dissent in the city. The publication was forced to close following the arrests of its top executives, editors and journalists last year. The second fraud count was for letting the same firm use the media outlet’s office space in an alleged breach of lease agreements from 1998 to 2015.