Former Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai, a vocal critic of China's Communist Party, has been convicted of conspiracies of sedition and foreign collusion under a national security law.
Taiwan, on the other hand, has condemned the ruling and accused Hong Kong of "exploiting the draconian national security legislation to stifle freedom of speech... and politically persecuting ...
Hours after Jimmy Lai, a pro-democracy newspaper owner in Hong Kong, was found guilty on sedition charges, his daughter told reporters she hopes international pressure can spare her father.
The 78-year-old was charged under Hong Kong's controversial national security law. The law was enacted by Beijing in 2020 after pro-democracy protests swept the region in 2019. The businessman ...
Hong Kong's High Court will hand down a verdict on Monday in the landmark national security trial of pro-democracy campaigner ...
The daughter of Jimmy Lai, the pro-democracy tycoon jailed in Hong Kong, has expressed concerns about her father's ...
Hong Kong’s High Court has found billionaire media mogul Jimmy Lai guilty on national security charges, in the most closely ...
The Hong Kong government has slammed the BBC over what it said was an “unfounded report” about pro-democracy media mogul ...
The self-made tycoon was convicted this week of violating Hong Kong's "national security" law. But he could have escaped it.
A Hong Kong court will deliver its verdict in the national security case of former pro-democracy newspaper founder Jimmy Lai on Monday. Lai faces up to life in prison if ...
The verdict was in many ways an inevitable consequence of the sweeping political crackdown imposed by China on Hong Kong after mass anti-government demonstrations and civil unrest there in 2019 and ...
The 78-year-old symbol of China’s protest crackdown faces a possible life sentence.