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Lai Chee-ying (Chinese: 黎智英; born 8 December 1947 [4]), also known as Jimmy Lai, is a Hong Kong businessman and politician. He founded Giordano , an Asian clothing retailer, Next Digital (formerly Next Media), a Hong Kong-listed media company, and the popular newspaper Apple Daily .
Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai, known for his support of the city’s pro-democracy movement and criticism of China’s leaders, turned 76 behind bars in a maximum security prison earlier this ...
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 ...
Jimmy Lai, one of Hong Kong's most influential pro-democracy figures, has testified in court for the first time in a national security trial that may see him sentenced to life in jail. The 76-year ...
Jimmy Lai, the pugnacious Hong Kong media tycoon whose now shuttered tabloid Apple Daily was a regular thorn in Beijing’s side, took the stand Wednesday in his own defense for the first time in ...
Jimmy Lai, Yeung Sum, Cyd Ho, and Sin Chung-kai pleaded guilty to 1 count of organizing unlawful assembly; Lai was sentenced to 14 months in prison, and together with his other two illegal demonstrations, a total of 20 months in prison; Yeung was sentenced to 14 months in prison; Ho was sentenced to 14 months in prison. Among them, Ho was ...
Held in solitary confinement at Hong Kong’s Stanley Prison, Jimmy Lai, 75, is serving a sentence of more than five years in connection with an alleged commercial lease violation, which his ...
Secretary-general Christophe Deloire of Reporters Without Borders protested Hong Kong Police's decision to arrest Jimmy Lai, stating the charge of colluding foreign forces on Lai was an attempt to outlaw the symbol of press freedom, and urged the Hong Kong Government to drop all charges and immediately release the arrested.