Beijing summons envoys from both UK and US in response to widespread international condemnation of Lai verdict Read more
The Independent - Dec 23His primary ‘offense’ was having Western friends, running Apple Daily and being resolved to ‘fight’ for values inimical to Beijing, writes Mark Simon. Read more
Wsj - Dec 22
The guilty verdict handed down this week to Hong Kong media tycoon and democracy advocate Jimmy Lai was expected but is still devastating, his daughter Claire Lai told CNN’s Jim Sciutto, blaming what she described as the city’s “highly compromised” legal system under Chinese rule. Read more
Cnn - Dec 17
The judges convicted Lai of colluding with foreigners to boost the pro-democracy movement. Donald Trump’s name is mentioned 195 times in their verdict. Read more
The Washington Post - Dec 16
60 Minutes reported from Hong Kong in 2019, when months of pro-democracy demonstrations turned increasingly violent. Jimmy Lai, a media company owner and democracy advocate, spoke with Holly Williams at the time about criticizing the Chinese government. Lai, now 78, was arrested in 2020, and conv... Read more
Cbs News - Dec 15
Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai is facing life in prison after he was convicted of sedition and colluding with foreign forces under the city's national security law. Read more
4 News - Dec 15
The business mogul and activist has been in ailing health and has already spent more than 1,800 days in solitary confinement in Hong Kong before his verdict. Read more
Npr - Dec 15
Jimmy Lai, the Hong Kong media mogul and China critic, reaches a key moment in his long fight on Monday, with the verdict in his years-long trial on national security charges seen as a test case of the city's rule of law. Read more
Spokesman - Dec 14
By Jessie Pang and James PomfretHONG KONG, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Hong Kong's High Court will hand down a verdict on Monday in the landmark national... Read more
Usnews - Dec 12
Lai’s children say the diabetic founder of now-shuttered Apple Daily has lost ‘a significant amount of weight’ in prison Read more
The Independent - Dec 03
