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The Commissioner’s Office of the Chinese Foreign Ministry in the HKSAR and the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the HKSAR issued separate statements on Thursday that strongly disapproved and firmly rejected US State Department and Congress hyping up Jimmy Lai’s fraud case.
Beijing hits back after US criticises media tycoon Jimmy Lai’s fraud conviction and ‘deterioration in protection for human rights’.
In the latest targeted prosecution of Jimmy Lai by Hong Kong authorities, the media tycoon and founder of Apply Daily was convicted of fraud on October 25 after a court found he violated the terms of a lease. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemns the court’s verdict and the ongoing persecution of Lai and calls for his immediate release from prison.
A Hong Kong court on Tuesday found Hong Kong publisher Jimmy Lai guilty of two counts of fraud related to a lease. The court found that Lai and two former executives at his company, Next Digital, had sublet part of the office space in the building that housed his media outlet Apple Daily, to another…
The publisher was arrested during a crackdown on the pro-democracy movement following widespread protests in 2019