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Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai has been charged under a Beijing-backed law critics say has been used to crack down on dissent.
Lai is accused of colluding with foreign forces under the controversial national security law, which Beijing imposed.
NPR speaks with Sebastien Lai, son of media mogul Jimmy Lai, a leading figure in Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement now on trial for accusations of violating the city's national security law.
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A court in Hong Kong resumed the closing arguments in the criminal trial of media mogul Jimmy Lai on charges of sedition and ...
A Hong Kong court began hearing final arguments Monday in the landmark national security trial of former pro-democracy ...
Hong Kong has imposed bounties on dissidents in exile and threatened to pursue them for life, and recently authorities added 15 more names to its wanted list.
Jimmy Lai, a British citizen aged 77, and a devout and practicing Catholic, has been imprisoned by Hong Kong authorities since December 2020.