Former media boss Jimmy Lai Chee-ying returns to the witness box in Hong Kong on Tuesday to explain his communications with associates and friends after the Beijing-imposed national security law came into effect on June 30, 2020, as his testimony enters its fourth week. The 77-year-old has pleaded not guilty to two charges of conspiring…
Former media boss Jimmy Lai Chee-ying returns to West Kowloon Court in Hong Kong on Monday to testify for a fourth week in his high-profile trial, answering questions over his state of mind after the enactment of the Beijing-decreed national security law on June 30, 2020. The 77-year-old has spent 12 days in the witness…
Former Hong Kong lawmaker Lam Cheuk-ting and two other opposition activists jailed in the cityâs biggest national security trial have lodged appeals against their convictions and sentences, bringing the total of such applications to eight. The High Court on Thursday released a document showing the appeals were lodged the day before by Lam, activist Gordon…
Former media boss Jimmy Lai Chee-ying has conceded he was âtoo optimisticâ to have once believed in Hong Kongâs future as a financial hub under the national security law, while dismissing âpresumptuousâ allegations that he foresaw his arrest would trigger foreign intervention. Lai, 77, also said on Thursday he did not believe the central and…
Former media boss Jimmy Lai Chee-ying has said he abandoned his âfight for freedomâ after Hong Kong adopted the national security law in 2020, as the city was âbeyond redemptionâ while maintaining he had not done anything illegal in resisting the legislation and lobbying for sanctions. Lai said on Wednesday he would not deliberately violate…
Former media boss Jimmy Lai Chee-ying has said he abandoned his âfight for freedomâ after Hong Kong adopted the national security law in 2020, as the city was âbeyond redemptionâ while maintaining he had not done anything illegal in resisting the legislation and lobbying for sanctions. Lai said on Wednesday he would not deliberately violate…
Jimmy Lai, the self-made billionaire and founder of Hong Kongâs Apple Daily, is on trial under the cityâs National Security Law. The trial has been agonizingly slow â it began on December 18, 2023 â but Lai has been in prison even longer. December 31 will mark four full years in continuous detention. Lai has…
Former media boss Jimmy Lai Chee-ying has said he opposed Washingtonâs decision to end Hong Kongâs preferential trade treatment after the national security law was adopted in 2020 as the USâ move would make the city more vulnerable to mainland Chinese âinterferenceâ. Lai told his high-profile national security trial on Tuesday that he had hoped…
Former media boss Jimmy Lai Chee-ying has admitted he called on the US to use its âmoral authorityâ to start a âwar of competing valuesâ against mainland China, as he underscored he was âdesperateâ for international support after Beijing imposed the national security law on Hong Kong. Lai told West Kowloon Court on Monday he…
Former media boss Jimmy Lai Chee-ying has admitted he wanted the US to impose âdraconianâ sanctions to compel Beijing to reconsider imposing the national security law on Hong Kong, while maintaining the âfight for freedomâ should persist without regard to personal safety. Lai, 77, also denied on Friday that he ever told a paralegal involved…