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Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai, 6 others face sedition charge
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Hong Kong, December 28 (ANI): Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai and six other former staff members of the tabloid Apple Daily are set to face an additional sedition charge, under the Beijing-imposed national security law.
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Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai, 7 others jailed over banned Tiananmen Ma
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Hong Kong, December 13 (ANI): Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai was sentenced to 13-month imprisonment on Monday for participating in last year's banned Tiananmen Massacre vigil.
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Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai convicted over banned Tiananmen vigil
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Hong Kong, December 9 (ANI): As many as three Hong Kong pro-democracy activists, including media tycoon Jimmy Lai, have been convicted of charges linked to last year's banned Tiananmen Massacre vigil.
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'Enough is enough': 4 Nordic newspapers publish front-page letter criticis
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Copenhagen [Denmark], July 1 (ANI): Four leading newspapers from the Nordic countries marked the centenary of the Chinese Communist Party's founding by publishing a full-front page editorial criticising China's violation of press freedom in Hong Kong.
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Hong Kong media curtail operations as China tightens grip on free speech
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Hong Kong, June 30 (ANI): As the national security law imposed by Beijing in Hong Kong completes one year in Hong Kong, several online media outlets in the city are taking down opinion articles and videos from their websites and have said they would move out after the arrest of another Apple
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Apple Daily's shutdown signals all-out attack by China on Hong Kong media,
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Hong Kong, June 27 (ANI): The recent shutdown of the 26-year-old Hong Kong pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily has signalled an all-out Chinese attack against media and free speech in the region, as the government has already announced that it would tighten rules about accrediting journalist
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Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai to stand trial, faces life imprisonment
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Hong Kong, June 15 (ANI): Imprisoned Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai will stand trial in the High Court, where the maximum sentence is life in prison, for allegedly breaching the national security law by colluding with the foreign forces.
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Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai, 9 others sentenced to prison over violat
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Hong Kong, May 28 (ANI): Amid China's crackdown, Hong Kong pro-democracy leaders were sentenced to jail over violation of National Security Law.
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After facing criticism, Hong Kong govt says freezing of Jimmy Lai's assets
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Hong Kong, April 17 (ANI): The freezing of HKD 500 million of Jimmy Lai's assets has nothing to do with press freedom, claimed Hong Kong administration after the city journalists association chided the latest action against the jailed media tycoon.
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Hong Kong authorities freeze Jimmy Lai's assets worth HKD 500 million
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Beijing [China], May 15 (ANI): Hong Kong authorities have frozen nearly HKD 500 million of imprisoned media tycoon Jimmy Lai's assets under the draconian national security law.
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Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai sentenced to 1 year in jail
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Hong Kong, April 16 (ANI): Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai was sentenced by a Hong Kong court to one year in prison on Friday over illegal assembly in August 2019, reported Xinhua.
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Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai denied bail again
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Hong Kong, February 18 (ANI): Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai Chee-Ying will remain in custody after being denied bail Thursday by the High Court of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), Xinhua reported.
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