US EditionHong Kong Journalists Face 'Precarious' Future After Jimmy Lai Jailed
- Jimmy Lai, a 78-year-old journalist, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in Hong Kong for advocating democracy and human rights through his newspaper, Apple Daily.
- The Chinese Communist Party has targeted Lai for his political views, criticizing him for opposing its authority.
- International figures have called Lai's sentence unjust and tragic, urging for humanitarian grounds for his release.
- This situation highlights the broader threats to freedom of speech, press, and religion under authoritarian regimes, particularly China's influence.
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In all the official reports of Beijing's media on the 20-year sentence given on February 9 for the Hong Kong entrepreneur, a 2019 public interview was deliberately misrepresented. To justify the very hard penalty with words that the founder of the Apple Daily never said. Instead, he kept silent what he said about the link between his Christian faith and the battle for freedom and justice.
The Killeen Daily Herald
Hong Kong journalists face 'precarious' future after Jimmy Lai jailed
For Hong Kong journalists, this week's sentencing of pro-democracy newspaper boss Jimmy Lai cements a climate of fear and self-censorship in the years since Beijing imposed a sweeping national security law.
In Hong Kong, the political centre of gravity continues to move to Beijing. A few days after the sentencing of the pro-democracy former magnat de la presse, Jimmy Lai, Beijing, to 20 years in prison, national security and economic planning are now advancing within a framework largely defined by central government.
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