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The Hello Kitty murder case (Chinese: Hello Kitty藏屍案; Jyutping: Hello Kitty cong4 si1 ngon3; Cantonese Yale: Hello Kitty chòhng sī ngon; lit. 'Hello Kitty hidden body case') took place in Hong Kong in the spring of 1999, when a nightclub hostess was abducted in Lai Yiu Estate, tortured and raped in an apartment in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, after stealing a wallet owned by one of her ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
(Bloomberg) -- Hong Kong media tycoon and a prominent democracy advocate Jimmy Lai, who has long denounced as a traitor by Chinese state media, was among activists swept up in a fresh wave of ...