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Hui, 67, was sentenced by a Shenzhen court to life imprisonment and ordered to forfeit all of his personal assets, state-run Xinhua News Agency reported Thursday.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

Hui Ka Yan, once one of China’s most prominent property tycoons, has been sentenced to life in prison for charges including fraud and financial misconduct.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

His wife was sentenced to one year and a day.

From BBC Aug. 19, 2026

Voters have been sentenced in eight of the office’s cases; seven others are pending.

From Salon Aug. 15, 2026

The heliograms struggled to project, frozen in a sheet of ice while shuffling through her previous “faces” before she'd been sentenced to life in prison.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton




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