Hong Kong’s security minister has hit out at a British news outlet for “smearing remarks” made in an article about the top court’s rejection of an appeal by former media boss Jimmy Lai Chee-ying over the hiring of a foreign lawyer. Secretary for Security Chris Tang Ping-keung on Sunday wrote to The Guardian to defend…
A Hong Kong government spokesperson has warned external parties not to intervene in the ongoing trial of Jimmy Lai Chee-ying, a day after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said getting the former media tycoon out of prison was a “priority”. The spokesperson said on Thursday evening that any countries, organisations or people trying to…
A Beijing official overseeing Hong Kong’s national security has dismissed calls from foreign groups to pardon Jimmy Lai Chee-ying, questioning the need to do so as the former media boss is not “a certain president’s son”. Sun Qingye, deputy director of Beijing’s Office for Safeguarding National Security in Hong Kong, also warned on Friday against…
A Beijing official overseeing Hong Kong’s national security has dismissed calls from foreign groups to pardon Jimmy Lai Chee-ying, questioning the need to do so as the former media boss is not “a certain president’s son”. Sun Qingye, deputy director of Beijing’s Office for Safeguarding National Security in Hong Kong, also warned on Friday against…
Former Hong Kong media boss Jimmy Lai Chee-ying has admitted trying to win a court’s permission for him to travel to the United States five years ago by withholding “politically sensitive” information about his plan to meet the nation’s vice-president. Lai, 77, made the remarks on Wednesday when his legal team re-examined their client’s evidence…
Jailed Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai has denied at his national security trial that he requested Washington, via a senior US adviser, to sanction China after the Beijing-imposed security law came into effect five years ago. Jimmy Lai. File photo: Kelly Ho/HKFP. Lai, 77, on Monday also pushed back against the allegation that he…
Former Hong Kong media boss Jimmy Lai Chee-ying has said he believes the Communist Party of China can remain in power if it ends its “tyrannical” rule, while dismissing prosecutors’ suggestion that he welcomes Western “dismemberment” of the country. Lai also told his national security trial on Monday he did not consider China a member…
Former Hong Kong media boss Jimmy Lai Chee-ying has denied testing the limits of the national security law by allowing the publication of “dangerous” commentaries in the now-defunct Apple Daily newspaper, adding he will not take responsibility for every perceived mistake his tabloid’s contributors make. Prosecutors on Tuesday argued the 77-year-old tabloid founder knowingly endorsed…
Former media boss Jimmy Lai Chee-ying has maintained he had reasonable grounds to predict the demise of Hong Kong’s rule of law and status as an international financial hub under the national security legislation, while rejecting prosecutors’ claims he stirred up fear among residents over Beijing’s tightened grip on the city. The founder of the…
Former media boss Jimmy Lai Chee-ying has maintained he had reasonable grounds to predict Hong Kong would lose its rule of law and status as an international financial hub under the national security legislation, while rejecting prosecutors’ claims he stirred up fear among residents over Beijing’s tightened grip on the city. The founder of the…