Hong Kong’s Courts Are the Last Check on Beijing’s Growing Power Bloomberg 12/24/2020 Iain Marlow, Kari Lindberg and Natalie Lung
(Bloomberg) For decades, Jimmy Lai has embodied the spirit of defiance in Hong Kong. He fled Communist China at the age of 12 to work in a garment factory, launched a pro-democracy media empire after the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown and became one of the world’s best known critics of Beijing.
The city got a different glimpse of Lai on a recent Saturday in December: Shackled at the wrists, with a metal chain around his waist, the 73-year-old shuffled slowly into court flanked by two correctional officers.
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