# Search: secrets and espionage laws, from 2020

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- 15 December 2025: [China (Hong Kong): conviction and 20-year sentence of the media owner Jimmy Lai under the National Security Law, 2025 to 2026](https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2025-hong-kong-convicts-jimmy-lai-under-national-security-law). On December 15, 2025, the High Court of Hong Kong, a special administrative region of China with its own courts, convicted Jimmy Lai, founder of the newspaper Apple Daily, on two counts of "conspiracy to commit collusion with foreign force…
- November 2024: [China: editor Dong Yuyu is sentenced to seven years for espionage over meals with a diplomat](https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2024-china-dong-yuyu-espionage-sentence). A Chinese court sentenced Guangming Daily editor and columnist Dong Yuyu to seven years in prison for espionage after his 2022 arrest while having lunch with a Japanese diplomat, a case his son called purely political.
- 17 January 2024: [Iran: journalists Niloofar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammadi are sentenced to 13 and 12 years](https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2024-iran-hamedi-mohammadi-sentenced). Iranian journalists Niloofar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammadi, who broke the story of Mahsa Amini's death in police custody, were sentenced to 13 and 12 years respectively on national-security-linked charges tied to their reporting, and later re…
- 14 July 2023: [Zimbabwe's Patriotic Act criminalizes journalists' contact with foreign governments](https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2023-zimbabwe-patriotic-act-criminalizes-foreign-contact). President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed the Patriotic Act, which criminalizes meeting foreign governments or officials with intent to harm Zimbabwe's sovereignty, with penalties up to death for advocating armed intervention and up to ten years…
- 5 September 2022: [Russia: journalist Ivan Safronov is sentenced to 22 years for treason](https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2022-russia-safronov-treason-sentence). A Russian court sentenced military correspondent Ivan Safronov to 22 years in prison for treason, accusing him of spying for a foreign state, in a case his supporters linked to his 2019 reporting on Russian arms sales to Egypt.
- 14 December 2021: [Vietnam: journalist Pham Doan Trang is sentenced to nine years for anti-state "propaganda"](https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2021-vietnam-pham-doan-trang-nine-year-sentence). A Vietnamese court sentenced Pham Doan Trang, founding editor of the independent outlet The Vietnamese, to nine years in prison for distributing anti-state "propaganda" under a national-security provision of the country's penal code.

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