Lai has been held in solitary confinement for more than 1,500 days since December 2020. Former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, speaking in Hong Kong in January, called on Beijing to end Lai's ordeal.

Hong Kong media tycoon and pro-democracy advocate Jimmy Lai finished testifying in court on Thursday in a landmark national security trial where he stands accused of colluding with foreign forces ...

Pro-democracy campaigner and British citizen Jimmy Lai might die in a Hong Kong prison, his son has told Sky News as he urges Sir Keir Starmer to push for his immediate release.

The spokesman said Lai was the primary plotter and instigator of the anti-China and Hong Kong riots, and he was willing to act as a pawn for the US to suppress China, flagrantly colluding with ...

HONG KONG -- The marathon trial of Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai Chee-ying will soon enter its third year, as the court combs through articles and statements he made before and after China ...

Lai told the court he had feared Hong Kong's rule of law would be compromised if a proposed law allowing extraditions to mainland China were enacted, and so called on people to come out and protest.

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 ...

HONG KONG - Hong Kong media tycoon and pro-democracy advocate Jimmy Lai, 76, testified in court for the first time on Nov 20 in his landmark national security trial, accused of endangering China ...

Lai testified in English that he asked Pence to voice his support for Hong Kong during a 2019 visit to the U.S. But he said he did not ask the U.S. government to take any action, saying, “It’s ...

Jimmy Lai, the pugnacious Hong Kong media tycoon whose now shuttered tabloid Apple Daily was a regular thorn in Beijing’s side, took the stand Wednesday in his own defense for the first time in ...

Jimmy Lai, the pugnacious Hong Kong media tycoon whose now shuttered tabloid Apple Daily was a regular thorn in Beijing’s side, took the stand Wednesday in his own defense for the first time in ...

Pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai told a Hong Kong court that he entered the media business after the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, in a bid to "participate in delivering freedom." "The more you ...