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High-profile trial. Lai has been in jail since December 2020 awaiting trial on multiple charges linked to his support for Hong Kong’s democracy protest movement through his media business.
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 ...
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. [41]
The trial of Hong Kong’s most famous activist publisher who was arrested under China’s crackdown on dissidents will start Monday after being delayed for over a year. Jimmy Lai, 76, broke into ...
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 ...
Prominent activist and publisher Jimmy Lai on Tuesday pleaded not guilty to three charges of sedition and collusion with foreign countries in a landmark national security trial in Hong Kong. Lai ...
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.
Lai was first arrested, under the national security law in August 2020, and has spent much of the time since in prison. ... calling for sanctions against Chinese and Hong Kong officials. Lai has ...