O n Monday, the show trial of Jimmy Lai, the 76-year-old Hong Kong pro-democracy icon and former newspaper owner, kicked off. Top Stories Progressives Abandoned J. K. Rowling, Not the Other Way Around ...

Jimmy Lai could have fled Hong Kong when the Communists arrived in 1997. Hundreds of thousands of his fellow Hong Kongers did, making for the friendlier shores of Canada, Australia, and the United ...

Jimmy Lai, who will turn 77 later this year, has been imprisoned in a maximum-security Hong Kong prison, in solitary confinement, since December 2020. Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC, ...

Defiant Jimmy Lai denies foreign collusion at high-profile Hong Kong national security trial - Mr Lai, one of Hong Kong's most influential pro-democracy figures, faces up to life in jail if found ...

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 ...

Since Mr. Lai’s arrest, the city has changed dramatically. It is now led by John Lee, a former security chief who waged the crackdown that put dozens of opposition figures like Mr. Lai behind bars.

Pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai is physically breaking down in a Hong Kong prison and "time is running out" for him if the U.S. and Britain do not push for his release, his son said.

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 ...