Dual Hong Kong and British citizen is awaiting trial on national security charges that could result in life sentence Lawyers for the Hong Kong activist and media mogul Jimmy Lai have requested a ...

The Standing Committee of the National ... in national security trials. Mr. Lee beseeched his bosses in Beijing for help after the Hong Kong courts rejected his bid to stop Jimmy Lai—the ...

Hong Kong is looking to pass a legislative amendment to prevent British lawyer Timothy Owen from defending media tycoon Jimmy Lai in a national security law trial in September, the South China ...

“The police are making the story of Jimmy Lai,” this person ... He will go on trial again this year, this time explicitly for violating the national-security law; the accusation of being ...

02:49 Hong Kong leader to ask Beijing to interpret national security law amid Jimmy Lai trial Hong Kong leader to ask Beijing to interpret national security law amid Jimmy Lai trial Although the ...

From press freedom to the judicial system, Beijing is seeking to erode the traditional political rights that once made Hong ...

Jailed Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai's international legal team have asked UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak for an urgent meeting ahead of his trial on national security charges later this year. The ...

Jimmy Lai, the 75-year-old founder of the now ... to take immediate action to secure Lai's release ahead of his national security trial after he was sentenced to five years and nine months in ...

FILE - Democracy advocate Jimmy Lai leaves the Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeal in Hong Kong, on Feb. 9, 2021. The national security trial of Lai, a Hong Kong pro-democracy publisher, was further ...