‘Not a president’s son’: Beijing official rejects calls to pardon Hong Kong’s Jimmy Lai

Not a ‘president’s son’: official rejects calls to pardon Hong Kong’s Jimmy Lai

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…

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‘Not a president’s son’: Beijing official rejects calls to pardon Hong Kong’s Jimmy Lai

‘Not a president’s son’: Beijing official rejects calls to pardon Hong Kong’s Jimmy Lai

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…

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Jimmy Lai says he didn’t think at first national security law would be ‘end’ of Hong Kong

Jimmy Lai says he didn’t think at first national security law would be ‘end’ of Hong Kong

Former media boss Jimmy Lai Chee-ying has conceded he was “too optimistic” to have once believed in Hong Kong’s future as a financial hub under the national security law, while dismissing “presumptuous” allegations that he foresaw his arrest would trigger foreign intervention. Lai, 77, also said on Thursday he did not believe the central and…

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