Jimmy Lai

Lai’s incarceration in Hong Kong’s high-security prison has been called a ‘death sentence’

President Trump understandably takes great pride in the number of unjustly imprisoned people he has helped to free from foreign dungeons

Hong Kong authorities have hit out at a US congressional commission for colluding with “anti-China politicians” to hold a hearing on jailed former media boss Jimmy Lai Chee-ying and introducing a bill to “intimidate” local national security officials with sanctions

HONG KONG — Hong Kong authorities have raided two bookstores and arrested five people on suspicion of selling allegedly seditious publications, local media reported Wednesday, in the latest step targeting independent booksellers

Noting that safeguarding national security is a continuous endeavor, the spokesperson said that the HKSAR government will strive to steadfastly safeguard national sovereignty, security and development interests, while protecting the legal interests, rights and freedoms of Hong Kong residents and other people in Hong Kong in accordance with the law

President Donald Trump divulged how Chinese President Xi Jinping responded to his inquiry about releasing Jimmy Lai, a Hong Kong businessman imprisoned after his outspoken criticism of the Chinese government

President Donald Trump has long tried to portray himself as something of a strongman on China, though his tough talk and trade wars are often undercut by his remarkably accommodating nature toward Xi Jinping

Jimmy Lai was sentenced to 20 years in prison in February on contested charges amid a wider crackdown on dissent

Lai fue condenado en febrero a 20 años de cárcel por dos cargos de conspiración para colaborar con fuerzas extranjeras y un cargo de publicación de material sedicioso

That conflict is among the matters expected to be discussed, as well as broader issues of US-China trade and sticking points such as the fate of self-governed Taiwan

Before being imprisoned for 20 years, Jimmy Lai founded Hong Kong's largest pro-democracy newspaper

The writ issued by the High Court details bank accounts, several small factory properties and private company shareholdings linked to Lai, who built his fortune in the garment trade before moving into media

The sentencing of Jimmy Lai Chee-ying has been cited by several Western officials and media outlets as further evidence that Hong Kong’s legal system is in decline

Hong Kong Arrests Booksellers Over Jimmy Lai Title, Reports Say

Pong Yat‑ming, who founded Book Punch in 2020 in Sham Shui Po, detained along with three female employees for selling ‘seditious’ publications

Over the years, a regular Chinese campaign of sending warplanes flying toward Taiwan — the self-governing island it claims as its territory — has raised alarm from Taipei to Washington

Lai, an outspoken critic of China’s ruling Communist Party who founded the now-defunct Apple Daily, was found guilty in December of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces and conspiring with others to publish seditious articles

Jimmy Lai cleared of fraud but remains in prison for conspiracy

A Hong Kong court sentenced the father of a U.S.-based activist to eight months in prison Thursday for attempting to withdraw some funds from his daughter’s insurance policy, in the first case against a family member of a pro-democracy advocate wanted by the city's authorities brought under the city's homegrown national security law

If the Democratic Party ever wonders why twice as many African Americans voted for Donald Trump in 2024 than four years earlier, they need look no further than Gavin Newsom

Earlier this month, a Hong Kong court sentenced Lai, a prominent China critic and former media tycoon, to 20 years in prison in a landmark foreign‑collusion case under the city’s national security law

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The U.S. urged China to reverse what Secretary of State Marco Rubio called an "unjust and tragic" sentence against Hong Kong publisher and democracy activist Jimmy Lai, after Beijing-backed courts handed the 78-year-old a 20-year prison term under the national security law

Safeguarding national security does not come to an end with the jailing of former media boss Jimmy Lai Chee-ying

UK foreign minister Yvette Cooper has called for democracy campaigner Lai, a 78-year-old British citizen, to be released on humanitarian grounds

On Monday, the High Court of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) sentenced Jimmy Lai Chee-ying to 20 years in prison on two charges of conspiring to collude with external forces and a charge of conspiracy to publish seditious materials

High Court judges to hand down penalties on 78-year-old defendant at 10am, according to judiciary website

The Prime Minister used an address to MPs to promote his approach to dealing with China — which stands accused of espionage against parliamentarians, cyber warfare against British institutions and of human rights abuses against its own people

The Prime Minister comes away with only warm words and marginal deals, having flown 5,000 miles with the promise of 'history-making' talks with president Xi Jinping

Meeting focused on shared interests to bolster Sino‑British relations, with Jimmy Lai’s national security case also touched upon in ‘respectful’ discussions

Sir Keir Starmer has been criticised for failing to take a tougher stance on China amid revelations a Beijing-ran cyber-espionage operation targeted the phones of close aides to Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak between 2021 and 2024

The Prime Minister is in Beijing on the first visit by a British prime minister for eight years, and will meet president Xi Jinping on Thursday

The relations between two countries soured under former PM Justin Trudeau when the administration arrested the chief financial officer of Chinese firm Huawei in 2018

Three High Court judges adjourned sentencing Lai and eight others until an unspecified date after defence lawyers wrapped up their mitigation arguments at West Kowloon Court on Tuesday

Trio among eight defendants who pleaded guilty before former media boss Jimmy Lai’s conviction last month in national security trial

Lai, 78, has been detained since December 2020 and faces life in prison