Jimmy Lai

December 04, 2024

A Good Troublemaker: Jimmy Lai’s Story of Hardship and Heroism

“For them, I am a troublemaker. It is hard for them not to clamp down on me and silence me.” On August 10, 2020, Jimmy Lai, entrepreneur and media mogul, was arrested in the wake of the crackdown on the pro-democracy protests that engulfed Hong Kong. Continue Reading...

December 18, 2023

The Trial of Jimmy Lai

Jimmy Lai is no ordinary political protester. The 76-year-old Hong Kong entrepreneur and newspaper publisher has sat in solitary confinement in 35-pound handcuffs for more than 1,000 days as he prepares for the trial of his life. Continue Reading...

September 01, 2023

Three Years After Chinese Communist Crackdown, Hong Kong Continues to Suffer

At the end of August, the Hong Kong government charged a Cantonese language group with “threatening national security.” The latter had posted online an essay, cast in the form of fiction, that emphasized the city’s loss of liberty. Continue Reading...

June 16, 2023

European Union Demands Immediate Release of Jimmy Lai

The European Parliament condemned the persecution of jailed newspaper publisher and pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai, calling for his immediate and unconditional release from prison and the repeal of Hong Kong’s national security law (NSL), in a resolution passed on June 15, according to Voice of America. Continue Reading...

June 07, 2023

Jimmy Lai Appeals National Security Committee Decision—Again

Jimmy Lai, the imprisoned Hong Kong media mogul and pro-democracy activist, has lodged an appeal after his previous attempt to challenge a decision made by the National Security Committee was rejected, according to the Hong Kong Free Press. Continue Reading...

May 30, 2023

Hong Kong Court Denies Jimmy Lai’s Petition to Terminate Trial

The Hong Kong High Court has rejected a request by pro-democracy activist and newspaper publisher Jimmy Lai to terminate his upcoming trial under the city’s so-called National Security Law (NSL), according to Reuters. Continue Reading...

May 20, 2023

Jimmy Lai Denied U.K. Human Rights Lawyer—Again

Hong Kong’s Court of First Instance has rejected Jimmy Lai’s appeal challenging the denial of access to U.K. counsel. In November of last year, a national security committee denied Lai, a U.K. Continue Reading...

May 17, 2023

Journalists Worldwide Demand: Free Jimmy Lai

Jimmy Lai, Hong Kong’s most famous freedom fighter, is still in prison. In September, he will face a trial that could leave him spending the rest of his life behind bars for the crime of standing against the Chinese Communist Party’s crackdown on Hong Kong and the civil rights it had enjoyed. Continue Reading...

May 11, 2023

Jimmy Lai Denied Counsel Yet Again as Power Shifts to Pro-CCP Exec

Jimmy Lai is Hong Kong’s most persecuted freedom fighter. Jailed in December 2020 for the crime of protesting the Chinese Communist Party’s clampdown on civil rights in Hong Kong, the 75-year-old fashion mogul and entrepreneur faces the possibility of life in prison if convicted of violating the CCP’s National Security Law, which took effect in June 2020. Continue Reading...

May 04, 2023

Banned by TikTok: The CCP Doesn’t Want You to See The Hong Konger

TikTok and its overseers within the Chinese Communist Party have suspended the Acton Institute’s TikTok account for continuing to tell the story of the Chinese crackdown on civil rights in Hong Kong. Continue Reading...

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