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Although Lai's pro-Trump position was shared by many in the Hong Kong pro-democracy camp, as well as Apple Daily, many democracy experts in the United States believe the position was the main reason the why Hong Kong's national security law was passed, and probably was one of the factors that led to the 2021 U.S. Capitol insurrection.
A prominent critic of the Chinese Communist Party, who met with U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and National Security Advisor John Bolton in July 2019 during the Hong Kong protests, [7] Lai was arrested on 10 August 2020 by the Hong Kong police on charges of violating the territory's new national security law, [8 ...
The U.S. State Department has expressed concern after Chinese-ruled Hong Kong arrested publishing tycoon Jimmy Lai, an outspoken critic of Beijing, and two pro-democracy activists. The arrests ...
Jimmy Lai was the chief of the now-defunct Hong Kong tabloid Apple Daily. Now 77, he's facing a life sentence in a national security trial in Hong Kong. He was arrested in August 2020 after the ...
In August 2020, 200 police officers raided Apple Daily’s offices and arrested Lai.Less than a year later, in June 2021, a second raid involving hundreds of officers led to the arrests of five ...
Jimmy Lai was accused of financing groups advocating sanctions against Hong Kong. All arrestees were granted bail by the police originally, until 2 December 2020 when Jimmy Lai was arrested again and formally charged with fraud on the next day. He was denied bail by court and remanded in custody.
Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai was arrested on Monday under Beijing's new national security law for the city, sending a chill across the global financial hub. Lai's arrest, for suspected ...
A Hong Kong court on Friday rejected a bid by prominent activist publisher Jimmy Lai to throw out a sedition charge against him, delivering the ruling on the third day of his landmark national ...