US EditionHong Kong journalists face ‘precarious’ future after Jimmy Lai jailed
Jimmy Lai received a 20-year prison sentence and six former Apple Daily executives were jailed between seven and 10 years under the national security law, officials said.
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One of Hong Kong's most famous media tycoons and a critic of Beijing has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. His life was a true movie story.
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. Journalists outside the West Kowloon Law Courts Building on February 9, 2026, ahead of the sentencing of pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai. Photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP. “There will not be another Apple Daily, nobody dares to copy what it did,” jo…
Jimmy Lai’s 20-Year Sentence Signals ‘Complete Death’ of Hong Kong’s ‘One Country, Two Systems’: Analysts
Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai’s 20-year prison term marks the end of the city’s “one country, two systems” framework and could embolden Beijing to pursue even more severe prosecutions in the future, experts say. The Hong Kong High Court sentenced Lai on Feb. 9 after he was convicted in December on two counts of “conspiracy to collude with foreign forces” under the national security law that the Chinese regime imposed on the city. The court als…
Jimmy Lai is China's leading dissident and Hong Kong's most prominent defender of freedom, his condemnation being a confirmation of the descent of territory into tyranny.
Hong Kong Imprisons Jimmy Lai For Security Crimes
Jimmy Lai, the founder of Apple Daily, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in Hong Kong on December 15, 2025, after being found guilty of three national security crimes. A three-judge panel convicted him of two counts of conspiring with foreign forces to endanger national security under Article 29 of the Hong Kong SAR National Security Law and one count of conspiring to publish seditious materials under Section 159 of the British-era Crimes Ordi…
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