Former Hong Kong media magnate Jimmy Lai dared for years to demand free speech from China's government. 3 years after his arrest, he's facing a possible life sentence.

The prosecution contends that Mr Lai used Apple Daily to “pollute the minds” of its readers with seditious material designed to undermine the authorities in Hong Kong and Beijing.

Jimmy Lai's wife, Teresa Lai, and retired Chinese Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-Kiun arrive at West Kowloon Magistrates' Courts to attend Hong Kong activist publisher Lai's national security trial in ...

HONG KONG — Hong Kong’s Beijing-backed authorities have been accused of staging a show trial “worthy of Stalin,” as Catholic entrepreneur Jimmy Lai went on trial Monday on charges of ...

Jimmy Lai was the chief of the now-defunct Hong Kong tabloid Apple Daily. Now 77, he's facing a life sentence in a national security trial in Hong Kong. He was arrested in August 2020 after the ...

Lai’s trial is set to resume one day after dozens of prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy activists are sentenced in the largest case under the national security law. On Tuesday, 45 activists are ...

Jimmy Lai, once one of Hong Kong's most outspoken media tycoons, has been silent for more than four years since his arrest in 2020. But on Wednesday, Lai was seen in a Hong Kong courtroom, where ...

Hong Kong’s top leader on Tuesday warned President-elect Donald Trump not to interfere in the Chinese territory’s internal affairs after he said he would “100%” free the imprisoned pro ...

Lai’s publication, Apple Daily, supported Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests in 2019 and 2020 and criticized China’s attempts to silence dissent.Apple Daily closed in 2021 after local ...

Jimmy Lai during an interview in Hong Kong in July of 2020. (Vincent Yu/AP) Sept. 26 marks the 1,000th day that Hong Kong businessman, journalist and pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai has spent in ...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai said on Thursday he was against violence and had not sought to incite hatred against China and Hong Kong authorities by calling for protests ...