A Hong Kong court handed down a guilty verdict on Monday in the landmark national security trial of Jimmy Lai, a media tycoon and pro-democracy activist whose case highlights shrinking tolerance for dissent in the city.

周一，在对媒体大亨、民主活动人士黎智英进行的里程碑式国家安全案审判中，香港一家法院作出了有罪判决。此案凸显出香港对异见的容忍度正在下降。

Officials in Hong Kong and mainland China had cast Mr. Lai, 78, as the mastermind of antigovernment demonstrations that engulfed the former British colony in 2019, posing a serious challenge to Beijing’s authority. Prosecutors said he colluded with foreign governments, including the United States, to target China and Hong Kong with sanctions.

香港和中国大陆的官员指控78岁的黎智英是2019年席卷香港这一前英国殖民地的反政府示威活动的主脑，对北京的权威构成了严重挑战。检察官表示，他与包括美国在内的外国政府勾结，对中国和香港实施制裁。

Mr. Lai pleaded not guilty to two counts of “conspiracy to collude with foreign forces,” an offense that can be punished by up to life in prison, and not guilty to a count of conspiracy to publish seditious material in Apple Daily, the now-shuttered Chinese-language newspaper he founded in 1995. On Monday, a court found him guilty on all three counts.

黎智英对两项“串谋勾结外国势力”罪名（最高可判终身监禁）及一项通过其创办的《苹果日报》（现已停刊）发布煽动刊物的罪名均作无罪抗辩。本周一，法庭裁定其三项罪名成立。

His legal team argued that his calls for sanctions ended when the 2020 national security law took effect.

他的法律团队主张，随着2020年国家安全法生效，他对制裁的呼吁就终止了。

Hong Kong’s “one country two systems” legal framework is meant to guarantee the territory some autonomy from Beijing and freedom of speech until 2047. But critics say the case shows how the framework has been undercut by two national security laws — one imposed by Beijing in 2020, the other introduced by the Hong Kong government last year — that were responses to the protests.

香港的“一国两制”法律框架本该保证该地区在2047年之前享有一定程度的自治权和言论自由。但批评者指出，此案揭示了该框架如何被两部回应抗议活动的国家安全法削弱——一部由北京于2020年颁布，另一部由香港政府去年推出。

In 2022, a Hong Kong court sentenced Mr. Lai to more than five years in prison for fraud, saying he had violated the terms of a lease agreement related to Apple Daily, a persistent critic of Beijing.

2022年，香港法院以欺诈罪判处黎智英五年多监禁，称其违反了与《苹果日报》相关的租赁协议条款。该报长期批评北京当局。