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Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai, 7 others jailed over banned Tiananmen Ma
Updated : 4 years, 5 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, 5 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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Chinese crackdown forces Hong Kong-based renowned media house to shut down
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Hong Kong, September 7 (ANI): Critical of the Chinese government for decades, Hong Kong-based media house Next Digital has started taking steps to shut down as Beijing's crackdown had left it with no way to operate, a media report said on Sunday.
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Committee to Protect Journalists confer press freedom award on Hong Kong's
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
New York [US], June 23 (ANI): The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has said it will honour Jimmy Lai, the imprisoned founder of Hong Kong's Next Digital media company and Apple Daily newspaper, with the 2021 Gwen Ifill Press Freedom Award.
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Apple Daily crackdown "sent shudders across media industry", says Hong Kon
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Hong Kong, June 21 (ANI): After 500 police officers raided the Apple Daily newsroom in Hong Kong last week to arrest executives and top editors, a Hong-Kong based reporter on Sunday said that the incident has "sent shudders" throughout the media industry.
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Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai to stand trial, faces life imprisonment
Updated : 4 years, 11 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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HK security chief threatens Jimmy Lai's bankers with jail if they deal wit
Updated : 4 years, 12 months ago IST
Hong Kong, May 28 (ANI): Hong Kong's security chief has warned bankers for jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai that dealing with his frozen bank accounts will make them liable for imprisonment up to seven years.
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Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai, 9 others sentenced to prison over violat
Updated : 4 years, 12 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 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 Stock Exchange suspends trading in media tycoon Jimmy Lai's comp
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Hong Kong, May 17 (ANI): The Hong Kong Stock Exchange temporarily suspended trading of shares belonging to jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai's Next Digital before the market opening on Monday, two days after the Security Bureau froze nearly HKD 500 million of his assets.
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Hong Kong authorities freeze Jimmy Lai's assets worth HKD 500 million
Updated : 5 years 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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UK, EU condemn sentencing of Jimmy Lai, other Hong Kong pro-democracy acti
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
London [UK], April 18 (ANI): The United Kingdom and the European Union condemned the decision to sentence publishing tycoon Jimmy Lai and multiple pro-democracy figures to prison for their roles in the 2019 mass protests that rocked the city for a year.
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