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Hong Kong’s Lai and Other Top Activists Sentenced Amid Crackdown Bloomberg 28 mins ago (Bloomberg) -- Hong Kong media tycoon and pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai was sentenced Friday to a total of 14 months in prison for attending unauthorized protests and charged with more national security offenses as authorities pursue a deluge of cases against the city’s most high-profile dissidents. Lai, 73, and the founder of the pro-democracy Apple Daily newspaper, was sentenced alongside other pr...

Pro-democracy activist Lee Cheuk-yan, center, arrives at a court in Hong Kong Friday. Seven of Hong Kongs leading pro-democracy advocates, including Lee, and pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai, were sentenced Friday for organizing a march during the 2019 anti-government protests. Kin Cheung/AP toggle caption Kin Cheung/AP Pro-democracy activist Lee Cheuk-yan, center, arrives at a court in Hong Kong Friday. Seven of Hong Kongs leading pro-democracy...

Hong Kong’s Lai and Other Top Activists Sentenced Amid Crackdown Bloomberg 2 hrs ago (Bloomberg) -- Hong Kong media tycoon and pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai was sentenced Friday to a total of 14 months in prison for attending unauthorized protests and charged with more national security offenses as authorities pursue a deluge of cases against the city’s most high-profile dissidents. Lai, 73, and the founder of the pro-democracy Apple Daily newspaper, was sentenced alongside other prom...

Jimmy Lai hit with new national security charge 2021-04-16 HKT 16:03 Share this story Jimmy Lai is the most high-profile person charged under the national security law. File photo: AFP Prosecutors have pressed two additional charges against pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai, including another one under the national security law. As well as the earlier charge of colluding with foreign powers, Lai is now also accused of conspiring with his former assistant Mark Simon, national s...

Photo: RFA A court in Hong Kong on Friday handed down sentences to several prominent pro-democracy figures including media mogul Jimmy Lai, international barrister Margaret Ng, and Democratic Party founder Martin Lee, while prosecutors brought two additional charges under the national security law against Lai. Lai, 72, and veteran trade unionist Lee Cheuk-yan, 64, were jailed for 12 months under the Public Order Ordinance (POO) after the court found them guilty of taking part in a...

Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai gets one year in jail 2 minutes read Hong Kong, Apr 16 (EFE).- Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai was Friday given a year in prison for organizing an unauthorized march during a wave of anti-government protests in the city two years ago. Judge Amanda Jane Woodcock of the West Kowloon Court also sent former legislator Leung Kwok-hung to jail for 18 months and vice chairman of the Labor Party Lee Cheuk-yan for one year. The court also gave jail terms between eight t...

Four Jimmy Lai Cases in a Day Show Hong Kong Silencing Activists Bloomberg 2 hrs ago Iain Marlow and Chloe Lo (Bloomberg) -- On Friday alone, Hong Kong media tycoon and pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai faces four separate court appearances, a sign of the severity with which authorities are cracking down on dissent in the former British colony. Lai, owner of the pro-democracy Apple Daily newspaper, is scheduled to be sentenced on charges related to unauthorized protests in a pa...

A federal judge indicated Tuesday that a fired auditor who filed a whistleblower retaliation suit against PricewaterhouseCoopers failed to cite a specific law or regulation that he believed the company violated. SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — A federal judge will decide if one of the world’s largest accounting firms broke the law when it fired a senior manager for blowing the whistle on the company’s allegedly cozy relationships with Silicon Valley companies it was tasked with independently auditin...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story contains descriptions of sexual assault and harassment. POTSDAM — By the time SUNY Potsdam students concluded hours of protest, Wednesday’s sun had set. But it wasn’t an ending. Rally and forum participants — survivors of campus sexual assault and harassment, and their supporters — said they feel unheard, unseen and unsupported by the university. Marching from the Ives Park intersection toward SUNY Potsdam’s Satterlee Hall, about 30 p...

HONG KONG media tycoon Jimmy Lai was among three anti-China campaigners who pleaded guilty today to helping organise a violent protest in August 2019. Billionaire Mr Lai was returned to jail after his plea because he was convicted last Thursday of illegal activity in relation to other riots. The media mogul, sometimes called the “Asian Rupert Murdoch” for his ownership of multiple right-wing newspapers, has long used his outlets to attack the Chinese government.  Hong Kong authorities say ...