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Hong Kong tycoon Jimmy Lai faces trial under ‘unfair’ national security law

The 76-year-old media mogul faces up to life imprisonment for alleged ‘sedition’ and ‘collusion with foreign forces’.

Al Jazeera

Tory minister takes brutal swipe at David Cameron over China

Tom Tugendhat appears to mock foreign secretary for hailing ‘golden era’ in relations with Beijing

The Independent UK

Son of jailed Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai lobbies UK foreign secretary for his release

The son of jailed Hong Kong media mogul and pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai will meet with Britain’s foreign secretary on Tuesday to lobby for the U.K.'s help in securing his release from prison

The Independent UK

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Jimmy Lai’s son urges David Cameron to demand release of media tycoon: ‘Stand by my father’s side’

Jimmy Lai’s son calls for UK intervention ahead of father’s trial

The Independent UK

David Cameron urged to tell China to free Hong Kong publisher Jimmy Lai

Newspaper tycoon’s son seeks meeting with foreign secretary as Briton, 76, faces trial and possible life sentence

The Guardian - UK

For Hong Kong’s arrested pro-democracy activists, justice must wait

Closing arguments are due to begin in high-profile trial of 16 pro-democracy figures nearly three years after arrests.

Al Jazeera

Hong Kong lecture by British barrister linked to Jimmy Lai trial cancelled

Timothy Owen, who was blocked from representig the activist Jimmy Lai, was due to give a talk on law and democracy

The Guardian - UK

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Jimmy Lai: UK refuses to release details of efforts to free British citizen jailed by China ‘to avoid damaging relations’

Media tycoon and activist Jimmy Lai has been detained in China since 2020 and while foreign secretary James Cleverly says he raised the issue in Beijing, it is not clear how

The Independent UK

Jimmy Lai: Hong Kong mogul, activist ... and now a prisoner for 1,000 days

He went from rags to riches before his anti-communist newspaper fell foul of security forces. Now Lai’s plight tells of a city forced to live in the shadow of Xi’s authoritarian China

The Guardian - UK

Jimmy Lai's son fears media mogul may die in detention while awaiting trial

The son of jailed Hong Kong media mogul and prominent pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai says he doesn't want to see his father die in detention, as his lawyers raised the prospect that his long-delayed trial may be pushed back indefinitely

The Independent UK

Son of British media tycoon tells Cleverly to rescue father from Chinese jail: ‘British values are on trial’

James Cleverly met China’s Vice President today in first visit by a UK foreign secretary to China in five years

The Independent UK

Q&A: Sebastien Lai on father Jimmy Lai’s Hong Kong ‘show trial’

The media tycoon has been in jail for three years awaiting trial under the territory’s national security law.

Al Jazeera

OPINION - Torture, prison, even murder... the threats faced by our free press

With attacks on journalists rising, we need to fight harder than ever for the right to let campaigning reporters speak truth to power

Evening Standard

Hong Kong judges propose a further delay in the trial of activist publisher Jimmy Lai

Hong Kong judges have proposed a new delay in the trial of a prominent activist publisher who was arrested in August 2020 under a sweeping Beijing-imposed national security law

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The Independent UK

Prominent Hong Kong democracy activists partially win bid to quash convictions over 2019 protest

Seven of Hong Kong’s most prominent democracy advocates have had part of their convictions overturned over their roles in one of the biggest pro-democracy protests in 2019

The Independent UK

AP gets rare glimpse of jailed Hong Kong pro-democracy publisher Jimmy Lai

The Associated Press got a rare glimpse of jailed publisher and prominent pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai

Reason

'I Owe Freedom My Life': Jimmy Lai Is Imprisoned for Criticizing the Chinese Government

Lai's media company covered the Communist government's abuses when other Hong Kong media wouldn't.

Crikey

Hong Kong crushed by vicious crackdowns on political and press freedoms

Since Xi Jinping came to power in China, laws have been introduced banning any forms of dissent — many imposing life sentences.

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The Independent UK

Biden and Sunak to focus on Ukraine and economic security in British PM's first White House visit

President Joe Biden is welcoming Prime Minister Rishi Sunak for wide-ranging talks on Thursday as the British leader makes his first White House visit as premier

The Guardian - UK

UN experts express ‘grave concern’ over detention of Jimmy Lai in Hong Kong

Communication sent to Beijing government says media mogul’s prosecutions relate to his criticism of China

Reuters

Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai loses bid to terminate national security trial

A Hong Kong Court on Monday rejected an application to terminate a landmark national security trial against media tycoon Jimmy Lai, a case that could see him spend the rest of his life in prison if convicted.

The Guardian - UK

Hong Kong court rebuffs effort to dismiss Jimmy Lai national security trial

Lawyers acting for pro-democracy activist argued that proceedings could be biased due to judge selection

The Independent UK

Hong Kong court rejects publisher Jimmy Lai's bid to terminate his national security trial

A Hong Kong court has rejected a jailed publisher’s request to terminate his national security trial, pressing ahead with a landmark case seen as part of Beijing’s crackdown on the city’s pro-democracy movement

Reuters

Hong Kong hits back at UK call for security law to be scrapped

Hong Kong authorities on Friday condemned a British government call for the removal of a China-imposed national security law that Britain said had been used to persecute, "silence and discredit" pro-democracy opposition figures.

Al Jazeera

UK says raised Jimmy Lai security law case with China

The Hong Kong media tycoon has been in jail since December 2020 and faces long-delayed security law trial in September.

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