Jimmy Lai

Hong Kong police can now demand phone and laptop passwords without a warrant, with refusal a criminal offense carrying jail time and hefty fines. These new amendments, bypassing the legislature, expand police powers significantly. Critics decry the move as a severe blow to privacy and fair trial rights, further tightening Beijing's grip on the city's once-open society.

Hong Kong media tycoon jimmy lai was jailed for 12 months on Friday over one of the city's biggest ever protests in 2019. It is the first time the 73-year-old -- who is currently in custody after his arrest under Beijing's sweeping national security law -- has received a sentence for his activism.

Hong Kong media tycoon jimmy lai was arrested on Monday on suspicion of collusion with foreign powers, his aide said, in the highest-profile use yet of the new national security law Beijing imposed on the city after protests last year. Hong Kong police said seven people had been arrested on suspicion of violating the new law. Lai owns the popular tabloid Apple Daily.

Jailed Hong Kong media tycoon and Beijing critic jimmy lai was sentenced to a further 14 months in prison on Friday for organising an unauthorised assembly on Oct. 1, 2019, during one of the city's pro-democracy rallies that year.

Donald Trump pledged to secure the release of jimmy lai, the jailed Hong Kong media tycoon, vowing to raise the issue with Xi Jinping during trade negotiations. Lai, a critic of China's Communist Party, faces charges under the national security law. His case has drawn international attention, with supporters expressing concern for his health and advocating for his freedom.

US President Donald Trump on Thursday deemed the detention of media mogul jimmy lai by Hong Kong police as "terrible" development and said he hates to see what's happening in the Asian financial hub.

Live images broadcast on Facebook by Apple Daily's own reporters showed officers searching their newsroom in an industrial park on the outskirts of the international financial hub.

A Hong Kong appeal court on Monday blocked jailed media tycoon jimmy lai's bid to challenge in the city's highest court a warrant obtained by national security police to scrutinise the contents of his mobile phones. Lai, 75, is the founder of the now shut pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily and is due to face trial in September on three charges under the city's sweeping national security law, including collusion with foreign forces.

Hong Kong media mogul jimmy lai, a staunch critic of Beijing, has been convicted in a landmark national security trial. Found guilty of sedition and colluding with foreign forces, the 78-year-old faces a potential life sentence. His conviction follows the 2020 imposition of a national security law after pro-democracy protests.

jimmy lai, one of Hong Kong's most prominent democracy activists, was arrested on Monday for suspected collusion with foreign forces under the national security law, in what is the highest profile arrest yet under the new legislation.

jimmy lai, a vocal Beijing critic, is one of the highest-profile figures charged under a sweeping security law that China imposed on the financial hub over the summer in a bid to stamp out dissent. Lai, 73, was remanded into custody earlier this month by a dedicated national security judge sitting in a lower court.

Lai, who founded the Apple Daily tabloid, was charged on suspicion of colluding with foreign forces and endangering national security, local broadcaster TVB reported Friday. He is the most high-profile person to be charged under the law since it was implemented in June.

Hong Kong media mogul jimmy lai, one of the city's most vocal Beijing critics, was arrested Monday under a new national security law for colluding with foreign forces, deepening a crackdown on democracy supporters.

Hong Kong pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily has increased its print run more than fivefold to 500,000 copies as residents lined up to buy the paper in a show of support for beleaguered press freedoms, a day after police arrested five top editors and executives.

Prosecutor Anthony Chau presented evidence of jimmy lai's instructions to Apple Daily's management to urge protests against the extradition bill. The bill, later withdrawn, would have allowed extraditions to mainland China where coerced confessions and political considerations in courts are common. Lai also allegedly instructed the introduction of English content to seek foreign sanctions against China and Hong Kong. WhatsApp messages revealed that Lai wanted Apple Daily to focus on the 'yellow' viewpoint and garner support from political leaders like Pence, Pompeo, and Rubio.

Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon jimmy lai will be sentenced on Monday over national security crimes that could see him jailed for life, with some rights groups and Western nations still demanding his release. - Stiff penalties - Long a thorn in Beijing's side, Lai was prosecuted under a Hong Kong national security law that was imposed by Beijing in 2020, a year after huge and sometimes violent pro-democracy protests in the finance hub.

Hong Kong media tycoon jimmy lai said on Thursday he was overwhelmed by the support he got after becoming the most high-profile person to be arrested under a new national security law and urged patience in a "long-term fight" for democracy.

Jailed Hong Kong media tycoon jimmy lai, 74, is one of Hong Kong's best known democracy activists and is openly loathed by Beijing.For years his Apple Daily tabloid newspaper was scathing in its criticism of China's Communist Party and openly supportive of democracy.

Hong Kong billionaire, 75-year-old jimmy lai is behind bars for demanding that China honour Deng Xiaoping’s pledge of ‘one country, two systems’ which it promised Britain when it took over the colony in 1997