A Hong Kong construction worker has been jailed for 15 years for manslaughter and arson after killing his girlfriend and her two young daughters, with the presiding High Court judge saying the sentence must reflect the gravity of the “brutal acts” he committed. Standing in the dock on Friday, 65-year-old Iu Wai-cheung wiped away tears…
President-elect Donald Trump‘s former national security adviser Michael Flynn has joined Robert F. Kennedy Jr.‘s legal fight against the Biden administration. Kennedy, whom Trump has nominated to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, has been locked in a legal battle with President Joe Biden‘s administration, which seeks to remove Kennedy’s statements opposing COVID-19…
Text size Photos by Justin Tallis. Video by Yelim Lee The son of the Hong Kong democracy activist Jimmy Lai said Tuesday that his father’s trial in the Chinese territory was a “sham” but that he was “proud” of how he was handling himself in court. The 76-year-old media tycoon has been testifying for three…
The Hong Kong LGBTQ community’s fight for rights has wended its way through the city’s court system Aaron TAM Text size Hong Kong’s LGBTQ community has long resorted to the courts to fight for equality and rights protection — and that strategy has gradually paid off over the past decade. The Chinese city still does…
Former media boss Jimmy Lai Chee-ying has revealed he had access to “internal” US government information but denied a former top aide’s allegation he had pressured his now-defunct Apple Daily tabloid to draft a sanctions list for Washington after Hong Kong adopted the 2020 national security law. Lai, 76, returned to the witness box on…
The sentences handed down to former opposition activists in Hong Kong’s landmark national security case on Tuesday were proportionate, neither too lenient nor overly harsh, given the court’s decision that the plot they hatched undermined national security and was tantamount to wanting to overthrow the government, some legal experts have said. The experts contacted by…
Imprisoned Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai has started giving evidence in his national security trial, and is being taken through his international connections in minute detail as he fights the charge of colluding with foreign forces. Mr Lai has been in jail for nearly four years and this trial started almost a year ago,…
But the earlier acquittal of six defendants in the case raised eyebrows, while police said they would consider whether to appeal against some of the sentences given to the eight people jailed over the thwarted plot. Aside from the mastermind, the seven others were given jail terms ranging from five years and 10 months to…
MANATEE, Fla. (WWSB) – The new Manatee County Clerk app is a resource that can be used by residents for constant information. Manatee County Government has put out a new app for their residents.(Manatee County) Manatee County Clerk of the Circuit Court & Comptroller app includes the following services: Search for court records and official…
A woman in China died after undergoing six cosmetic surgeries within 24 hours, sparking a lawsuit by her family against the clinic involved seeking 1.2 million yuan (US$168,000). On December 9, 2020, the woman, surnamed Liu, from a rural area in Guigang, Guangxi province, southern China, visited a clinic in Nanning, where she took out…