For Americans wondering about the future of China and its relationship with the West, the latest verdict in the Jimmy Lai case proves an ominous harbinger of Hong Kong’s continued slide towards ...

Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai, center, who founded local newspaper Apple Daily, is arrested by police officers at his home in Hong Kong, Aug. 10, 2020. In the face of the Chinese Communist Party’s ...

The ruling is a capstone in the ongoing effort to rewrite the history of Hong Kong and its pro-democracy movement – using the once-respected courts. On December 15, a Hong Kong court found media ...

Your Dec. 16 editorial “After the Jimmy Lai Verdict” has reached new heights of absurdity. It slanders the Hong Kong High Court’s judgment as a “show trial,” glorifies Jimmy Lai as “a newspaper owner ...

The guilty verdict handed down this week to Hong Kong media tycoon and democracy advocate Jimmy Lai was expected but is still devastating, his daughter Claire Lai told CNN’s Jim Sciutto, blaming what ...

The daughter of pro-democracy advocate and former media mogul Jimmy Lai is urging the Chinese government to release her father after Lai was convicted in a Hong Court earlier in the week on national ...

Sebastien Lai, son of jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai, holds a sign outside 10 Downing Street in London, Britain, September 15, 2025. REUTERS A kangaroo court on Monday finally declared the great Jimmy ...

Hong Kong's High Court found media mogul and pro-democracy campaigner Jimmy Lai guilty of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces and sedition. The case has become a symbol of Beijing’s crackdown on ...

After five long years, Hong Kong’s High Court finally found Jimmy Lai guilty on Monday. That was no surprise. No court in that Beijing-controlled city was ever going to risk the Communist Party’s ...

Hong Kong — Jimmy Lai, the pro-democracy former Hong Kong media mogul and outspoken critic of Beijing, was convicted in a landmark national security trial in the city's court on Monday, which could ...

Kylie is the Global Live Pages Editor, leading a team providing real-time multimedia coverage of the biggest breaking stories worldwide. She previously worked on the UK Breaking News team, and spent ...

Officials had cast Mr. Lai, a pro-democracy media tycoon, as the mastermind of protests that roiled the city in 2019. He could face life in prison. David Pierson A Hong Kong court handed down a guilty ...