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Three judges hand-picked by the government on Monday ordered the 78-year-old to serve the penalty for conspiring to collude with foreign forces and a separate sedition conviction.googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1499653692894-0'); });

The punishment well surpasses the 10-year term given to activist Benny Tai and may draw further comparison between Lai and late Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, who was sentenced to 11 years on subversion charges over his calls for democratic reforms in China. Liu died from cancer in a Chinese hospital shortly after being granted medical parole in 2017.

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