The Latest Breaking News from Jimmy Lai

A Hong Kong court has upheld the decision to let a veteran British lawyer defend pro-democracy newspaper publisher Jimmy Lai at his upcoming national security trial

A sedition trial has opened in Hong Kong for two former top editors of a shuttered online media outlet who have been detained without bail for 10 months

Democracy activist and Apple Daily founder will stand trial without jury and could face up to life in prison

Thousands have been arrested over the 2019 protests, and more than 1,000 trials are currently under way.

Barristers from a British law firm who are representing jailed Hong Kong tycoon and democracy campaigner Jimmy Lai said on Thursday they had received anonymous emails warning them against travelling to the city to defend him.

The barristers allegedly received emails claiming to be from an ‘officer of the national security wing’ in Hong Kong

Hong Kong has been through immense changes since it was returned to Chinese rule in July 1, 1997.

Hong Kong returned to China in 1997 after 156 years of British colonial rule. China promised the city wide-ranging freedoms denied to those in mainland China for 50 years, although some say China has reneged on those promises, especially since 2020 under a new national security paradigm.

With the newspaper’s founder and senior editors jailed, other pro-democracy media outlets shut and 1,000 journalists out of work, can press freedom survive in the territory?