Hong Kong tycoon Jimmy Lai pleads not guilty in national security trial
Hong KongReuters Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to all charges against him in a high-profile national security trial that could see the city’s leading critic of the Chinese Communist Party jailed for life. Media tycoon Jimmy Lai, founder of Apple Daily, looks on as he leaves the Court of […]
Security tight ahead of landmark trial for leading Hong Kong democrat
Hong Kong, ChinaReuters A landmark national security trial for leading China critic Jimmy Lai opened in Hong Kong on Monday amid tight security, with the pro-democracy activist battling charges that he colluded with foreign forces, including the United States. Queues formed outside the West Kowloon Law Court building the night before the closely anticipated trial, […]
China clampdown on Hong Kong in spotlight as leading democrat goes on trial
Hong Kong, ChinaReuters A long-awaited national security trial opens in Hong Kong on Monday for leading China critic and media tycoon Jimmy Lai, who faces possible life imprisonment on charges he colluded with foreign forces, including the United States. Foreign envoys, business people and legal scholars will be watching the trial closely, saying it looms […]
Christians call for amnesty for Hong Kongers charged under national security law
Hong Kong, ChinaReuters A coalition of Protestant and Catholic Christian groups on Monday called on Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam to drop charges against media tycoon Jimmy Lai and other political activists jailed or in custody under a China-imposed national security law. The petition by more than a dozen Christian groups and leaders was handed […]
Hong Kong tycoon Jimmy Lai gets 14 months in prison for unauthorised assembly
Hong Kong, ChinaReuters Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai was sentenced to 14 months in prison while nine other activists received jail time or suspended sentences on Friday for taking part in unauthorised assemblies during mass pro-democracy protests in 2019. Senior barrister Martin Lee, who helped launch the city’s largest opposition Democratic Party in the […]
Veteran Hong Kong democrats found guilty in landmark unlawful assembly case
Hong Kong, ChinaReuters A Hong Kong court found seven prominent democrats guilty of unauthorised assembly charges, including 82-year-old barrister Martin Lee and media tycoon Jimmy Lai, 72, the latest blow to the city’s beleaguered democracy movement. Lee, who helped launch the city’s largest opposition Democratic Party in the 1990s and is often called the former […]
Jimmy Lai, Chinese Catholic financier, acquitted of first in a series of charges
Religion Unplugged Jimmy Lai, media mogul and entrepreneur, was acquitted last Thursday on the first of several charges he is currently facing from Chinese authorities. Lai, a Catholic convert, was charged with intimidating a reporter of a rival newspaper, the Oriental Daily, at a Tiananmen Square memorial. Lai’s time in the courthouse was only minutes […]
Essay: “Killing the chicken to scare the monkey” – what Jimmy Lai’s arrest means for Hong Kong’s independent media
Academic BRENDAN CLIFT, of the University of Melbourne in Australia, in an article first published on The Conversation, looks at this week’s arrest of Hong Kong media figure Jimmy Lai…