Hong Kong media tycoon gets 14-month jail term for 2019 anti-government protest
Hong Kong media tycoon and outspoken pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai was sentenced to more jail time Friday over his role in an anti-government protest in 2019, as authorities crack down on dissent in the city.
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Posted: May 28, 2021 4:23 AM ET | Last Updated: May 28
Jimmy Lai is currently serving a separate 14-month jail term for other convictions earlier this year, also related to unauthorized rallies in 2019.(Tyrone Siu/Reuters)
Hong Kong media tycoon and outspoken pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai was sentenced to more jail time Friday over his role in an anti-government protest in 2019, as authorities crack down on dissent in the city.
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Pro-democracy activists Leung Kwok-hung, center, and Lee Cheuk-yan walk to a Hong Kong Correctional Services van Friday before being driven to their sentencing hearing. Both received three years in prison on for organizing and attending an authorized protest on China s National Day on October 1, 2019.
May 28, 2021
Emily Feng
BEIJING – Ten veteran Hong Kong pro-democracy activists and politicians have been sentenced to up to three years prison time for organizing a demonstration in October 2019.
The round of sentences is the latest in a series of roundups among Hong Kong s beleaguered political opposition for their part in broader anti-government demonstrations against Beijing s rule rocked the region throughout 2019.
Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai, 9 others sentenced prison
ANI
28 May 2021, 16:18 GMT+10
Hong Kong, May 28 (ANI): Amid China s crackdown, Hong Kong pro-democracy leaders were sentenced to jail over violation of National Security Law.
Media tycoon Jimmy Lai who pleaded guilty to one crime of organising unapproved assembly, was sentenced to 14 months in prison. Nine others are sentenced between 14-36 months in prison by Hong Kong District Court on Friday, reported Dimsum Daily.
Together with other prison terms served concurrently, Jimmy Lai will serve a total of 20 months in prison and there are still multiple charges pending against him; he may be looking at longer prison terms, reported Dimsum Daily.
All of them pleaded guilty this month to organizing the protest, which had been banned by the police and took place Oct. 1, Chinas National Day. As they led a march on Hong Kong Island, clashes broke out across the city in some of the worst protest violence that year.