Tag: Jimmy Lai
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President Trump praises Xi Jinping and calls for Jimmy Lai’s release
US President Donald Trump is set to meet Xi Jinping in China on 13th May in a meeting that was planned last year, but was postponed due to the war on Iran. China has been hit by US tariffs which has since then been reduced around 25% on most products. The US President is expected…
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Jimmy Lai sentenced to twenty years in prison just days after British Prime Minister visits China
Jimmy Lai, one of Hong Kong’s major newspaper publishers, has been sentenced to twenty years in prison by a court in Hong Kong. The sentence comes just around 12 days the British Prime Minister visited China to improve relations with Beijing. The British government had called for his release: Jimmy Lai, who is 78 years-old, is…
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British and US governments call on China and Hong Kong to release publisher Jimmy Lai
The previous publisher of the Hong Kong newspaper, Apple Daily, has been sentenced to five years and nine months in prison on charges of “foreign conspiracy” with the National Security Law. He was imprisoned by authorities in Hong Kong in 2020. The National Security Law was imposed on Hong Kong by China in 2020 after…