U.K. Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said Lai was sentenced for exercising his right to freedom of expression after a “politically motivated prosecution.” She was concerned for Lai’s health and called ...
Jimmy Lai, the former Hong Kong media mogul and outspoken Beijing critic, received a 20-year prison sentence on Monday-the harshest punishment yet handed down under a China-imposed national security ...
Jimmy Lai, Hong Kong's pro-democracy media tycoon, has been jailed for 20 years for colluding with foreign forces under the city's controversial national security law. Rights groups called it a death ...
The media tycoon, a Chinese-born British citizen, had been a persistent critic of Beijing. The sentence is the harshest penalty so far under a national security law.
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Jimmy Lai, who has been jailed for 20 years, always said he owed Hong Kong, a city that had given him "everything".
Jimmy Lai, the pro-democracy former Hong Kong media tycoon and a fierce critic of Beijing, was sentenced on Monday to 20 ...
Britain said it was expanding its visa route for those who want to move from Hong Kong to the United Kingdom, in reaction to ...
The sentence for the media mogul, along with long prison terms for his editors, shows how Hong Kong enforces Xi Jinping’s red lines with a new severity.
Prominent democracy advocate Jimmy Lai was a child stowaway from mainland China who rose to become Hong Kong’s onetime media ...