Britain is preparing to emulate the United States by appointing an envoy tasked with freeing citizens arbitrarily detained ...

Jailed pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong shrugged and shook his head after a Hong Kong court this month announced a fresh ...

A top Beijing official overseeing Hong Kong affairs has warned of persisting threats in the city as a China-imposed national ...

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 12, 2025 / 17:00 pm Sebastian Lai, son of Hong Kong Catholic democracy advocate Jimmy Lai, said this week his father is “still fighting for his beliefs” while he ...

What is happening to him? Mark Clifford: Jimmy Lai is just past 1,500 days in prison. He’s been in solitary confinement most of that time. He’s also on trial. It’s the trial of his life.

Jimmy Lai poses during a June 16, 2020, interview with AFP, at the Next Digital offices in Hong Kong, ahead of his arrest that August. (photo: ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP via Getty Images) ...

Lai began his testimony on November 20, just one day after 45 pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong were sentenced to as much as 10 years in prison under a national security law.

Former Hong Kong publisher Jimmy Lai is testifying in his defense at his landmark national security trial. He told the court on Wednesday about his 2019 meetings with former U.S. Vice President ...

Jimmy Lai, the billionaire Hong Kong media tycoon, has taken the stand in his own defence in a high-stakes national security trial that could see him jailed for life.

One of the main faces of Hong Kong's pro-Democracy scene, British citizen and media tycoon Jimmy Lai, has started testifying in court. It is the first time he has spoken in court in a case that ...

The resumption of Lai’s trial comes just one day after 45 pro-democracy activists were sentenced under the national security law in Hong Kong. “The world is watching Hong Kong this week ...

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 ...