US EditionHong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai found guilty on all charges in landmark national security trial
- On Monday, December 15, the High Court found Jimmy Lai guilty of collusion and sedition at West Kowloon Law Courts Building, with sentencing upcoming.
- Prosecutors argued Jimmy Lai used Apple Daily, now-shuttered newspaper, to publish seditious articles and lobby foreign governments for sanctions, with this campaign continuing before and after the National Security Law enactment.
- The Court relied on contemporaneous WhatsApp and Signal messages, six accomplice prosecution witnesses, and found none discredited despite extensive cross-examination.
- Sentencing is expected early next year; Western governments and rights groups called the trial politically motivated and demanded Lai's immediate release, while John Lee, Hong Kong chief executive, welcomed the verdict.
- The ruling bookends a year that saw the Democratic Party disband, amid Apple Daily's closure and the NSL's nearly 100% conviction rate drawing international scrutiny of judicial independence.
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Hong Kong's High Court found media mogul and pro-democracy campaigner Jimmy Lai guilty of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces and sedition. The case has become a symbol of Beijing’s crackdown on dissent. Geoff Bennett discussed more with Claire Lai, Jimmy Lai’s daughter.
Hong Kong pro-democracy publisher convicted of sedition, in major blow to press freedom
This week, after a 156-day trial, the Hong Kong pro-democracy campaigner and media tycoon Jimmy Lai was convicted of sedition and collusion with foreign or external forces. Now facing life in prison, Lai was convicted under the country’s National Security Law, introduced in 2020. During the 2019 protests in Hong Kong, Lai and the media outlet he owned — Apple Daily — regularly presented the views of pro-democracy activists. It openly criticised …
Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai's daughter says she's "grieving" his sedition conviction
Hours after Jimmy Lai, a pro-democracy newspaper owner in Hong Kong, was found guilty on sedition charges, his daughter told reporters she hopes international pressure can spare her father.
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