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#Zodiac Killer’s cipher that has stumped law enforcement has been solved - CNN
▻https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/11/us/zodiac-killer-cypher-340-code-trnd/index.html

Decoding the cipher revealed the following message. It was sent in all capital letters without punctuation and included the misspelling of paradise:

“I hope you are having lots of fun in trying to catch me
That wasn’t me on the TV show which brings up a point about me
I am not afraid of the gas chamber because it will send me to paradice all the sooner
Because I now have enough slaves to work for me where everyone else has nothing when they reach paradice so they are afraid of death
I am not afraid because I know that my new life will be an easy one in paradice death.”
The TV show the message refers to is “The Jim Dunbar Show,” a Bay Area television talk show. The cipher was sent two weeks after a person claiming to be the Zodiac Killer called into the show.

Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai charged under national security law - CNN
▻https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/11/asia/jimmy-lai-charged-national-security-law-intl-hnk/index.html

Lai, 73, who is known for his support of the city’s democracy movement and criticism of mainland China, was charged on suspicion of colluding with foreign forces and endangering national security, according to Hong Kong police.
He is the most high-profile person to be charged under the law, which was imposed by Beijing in June. The offense of colluding with foreign powers carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment.

Lai was arrested in August, on the same day that about 200 officers raided the newsroom of his pro-democracy tabloid Apple Daily, and seized scores of boxes of documents.
Speaking to CNN at his home in Kowloon in August, Lai said his arrest was a “symbolic exercise” by local authorities to demonstrate the sweeping national security law imposed by Beijing had “teeth.”
"There is always a price to pay. I have been fighting (for democracy) throughout the years," he said, adding that he would continue to do so because “without freedom you have nothing left.”