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Jimmy Lai Trial Day 3: High Court: prosecution did not exceed time limit [Support Jimmy Lai]
Next Media founder Jimmy Lai and three companies related to Apple Daily were charged with “conspiracy to collude with foreign forces” and other crimes. The prosecution and defense had earlier disputed the time limit for the prosecution of “conspiracy to publish...
Jimmy Lai Trial Day 2: Legal controversy over overdue prosecution of conspiracy to publish seditious materials [Support Jimmy Lai]
Next Media founder Jimmy Lai and three related companies of “Apple Daily” were charged with conspiracy to collude with foreign forces. The trial was resumed today (19th) at the West Kowloon Court (temporary High Court). The defense disputed that the prosecution’s...
Jimmy Lai Trial Day 1: The Trial Begins [Support Jimmy Lai]
Jimmy Lai, who is serving his sentence, was escorted by the correctional officers into the defendant’s seat, where four correctional officers were guarding. Wearing a gray suit jacket, Lai sat between the two correctional officers. At one point he put on his glasses,...
China wants us to forget Jimmy Lai, who’s in a Hong Kong prison for telling the truth [Kansas City Star]
As of this Tuesday, Sept. 26, the billionaire newspaper publisher and human rights activist Jimmy Lai will have spent 1,000 days in a Hong Kong prison for practicing democracy without a license. After some 2 million of Hong Kong’s 7.4 million residents protested...
Jimmy Lai, a Legendary and Heroic Prisoner [National Review]
‘It would be so boring just being a businessman,” said Jimmy Lai, as the Chinese government was tightening the noose around Hong Kong. “I want to make my life more meaningful and interesting.” That is why he had gotten himself into trouble, he said. He was loath to...