Foreign secretary David Cameron called for the release of pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai as his high-profile national security trial began in Hong Kong on Monday. Mr Lai – founder of the ...

Pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai has gone on trial in Hong Kong charged with violating China's draconian National Security Law (NSL). The 76-year-old media mogul, known for being one of the ...

Lai's long-awaited national security trial opens in Hong Kong on Monday, with foreign envoys and others saying it is a key test for the city's judicial independence and freedoms under the sweeping ...

HONG KONG — A landmark national security trial opened Monday in Hong Kong for prominent activist and publisher Jimmy Lai, who faces a possible life sentence if convicted under a law imposed by ...

A court at the former British colony of Hong Kong, now firmly under control of the Chinese communists, faces the question of whether to make a martyr of a former press baron and convict him of ...

Lai is one of the most prominent targets of Hong Kong’s continuing crackdown on dissent that has seen scores of pro-democracy politicians and activists either jailed or forced to flee into exile ...

British Foreign Secretary David Cameron issued a similar statement on Dec. 18, saying that the national security law “has damaged Hong Kong, with rights and freedoms significantly eroded” and ...

Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai pauses during an interview in Hong Kong on July 1, 2020. The trial of Hong Kong’s most famous activist publisher who was arrested under China’s crackdown on ...

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Britain called for Hong Kong to release Jimmy Lai ahead of the trial of the leading China critic and media tycoon on charges he colluded with foreign forces, including the United States.

Lai’s trial was originally scheduled to start in December 2022 but was postponed while the Hong Kong government appealed to Beijing to effectively block his attempt to hire a British defense lawyer.

A vehicle believed to be carrying Jimmy Lai arrives at West Kowloon Magistrates' Courts, where Lai's trial is scheduled to open, in Hong Kong, Monday, Dec. 18, 2023.