The former media owner’s case is just one of many in a multiyear crackdown on freedom of speech and dissent, and another signal that the rule of law has deteriorated under Beijing’s influence.

By James Pomfret and Jessie Pang HONG KONG, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Hong Kong's High Court found tycoon and pro-democracy ...

Lai, 78, was convicted of conspiring to collude with foreign forces to endanger national security and conspiracy to publish ...

Dec 15 (Reuters) - Hong Kong tycoon Jimmy Lai was found guilty on Monday of two counts of conspiracy to collude with foreign ...

Pro-democracy former Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai would devote himself to God and his family rather than political ...

Lai, a Chinese-born British citizen, was the founder of the largest pro-democracy newspaper in Hong Kong — Apple Daily — which was raided and forced to shut down in 2021 under pressure from Chinese ...

The business mogul and activist has been in ailing health and has already spent more than 1,800 days in solitary confinement ...

The pro-democracy media tycoon faces a possible life sentence after being found guilty of colluding with foreign forces and ...

The Lai verdict, carrying up to life in prison, highlights Hong Kong’s “shrinking tolerance for dissent,” The New York Times ...

Hong Kong pro-democracy activist and former media mogul Jimmy Lai was convicted in a landmark national security trial in ...

Three government-vetted judges found Lai, 78, guilty of conspiring with others to collude with foreign forces to endanger ...

Hundreds of activists, lawyers, and politicians have been pursued and jailed, or chased into exile. But few have captured ...