The national security trial of Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai. was postponed for the second time on Dec. 13 after his British lawyer was denied a visa extension, according to local reports. The trial has been pushed back to Sept. 25, 2023, and is expected to last 40 days, pending a decision by […]
The White House is rejecting a World Trade Organization ruling and vowing to keep a set of Trump-era tariffs in place. The Biden administration is on the defense after giving $200 million to a company with ties to Beijing. Celebrations kicked off for International Human Rights Day. Groups marked the occasion with protests in Chicago […]
The United States has condemned a Hong Kong court decision to sentence pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai. to prison, a move that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime has characterized as an attempt to “whitewash criminals.” U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price on Sunday urged Chinese authorities “to respect freedom of expression, including for the […]
Hong Kong’s pro-democracy media tycoon, Jimmy Lai., was sentenced to five years and nine months in jail for fraud after being convicted of breaching a lease contract for his newspaper’s headquarters. Lai was found guilty of violating the terms of a lease for the headquarters of the now-defunct pro-democracy tabloid Apple Daily after concealing the […]
HONG KONG—A Hong Kong court on Thursday adjourned to Dec. 13 the high-profile trial of tycoon and CCP critic Jimmy Lai., who faces several charges of collusion with foreign countries under a Beijing-imposed national security law. The postponement of the trial by three High Court judges comes three days after Hong Kong authorities asked the […]
HONG KONG—Hong Kong’s High Court on Tuesday upheld a new warrant obtained by the national security police to search the contents of media tycoon Jimmy Lai.’s phones. In one of the former British colony’s biggest national security cases, Lai and six former Apple Daily staff members were charged with so-called collusion with foreign forces under […]
Jimmy Lai., founder of now-defunct media Apple Daily, is facing a trial without a jury in Hong Kong after he denied charges based on Beijing’s national security law. The trial is set to start in December and will last 30 days.
Hong Kong’s upcoming executive election has just one candidate. This Sunday, the city will “choose” its next chief executive. Meanwhile, the Chinese communist regime continues to clamp down on the ever-shrinking freedoms in the city. Why do the people of Hong Kong continue to fight for change? I speak with Samuel Chu, a Hong Kong […]
Hong Kong prosecutors on Tuesday filed a “seditious publications” charge against Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai, adding to the charges he already faces under Beijing’s draconian national security law for his participation in a Tiananmen vigil in June 2020. The additional sedition charge accuses Apple Daily founder Lai, 74, of conspiracy to print, […]
A Hong Kong court sentenced media tycoon Jimmy Lai. to a year and a month behind bars for participating in an assembly last year. Alongside him, seven other pro-democracy activists were sentenced to up to 14 months in prison. The annual candlelight vigil was to commemorate the Chinese Communist Party’s Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989.
