The media tycoon, a Chinese-born British citizen, had been a persistent critic of Beijing. The sentence is the harshest penalty so far under a national security law.

The case against Lai, a 78-year-old media tycoon and critic of China’s ruling Communist Party, has become a symbol of Beijing’s crackdown on dissent in Hong Kong.

Former Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been sentenced to 20 years in prison, ending a years-long legal battle that has come to define Beijing’s transformational crackdown on the once-freewheeling ...

Former Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai has become what observers say is a symbol of the 2020 crackdown on press freedoms in ...

Lai, who had pleaded not guilty to all charges, was among the first prominent figures arrested under Beijing's security law in August 2020.

HONG KONG -- Prominent democracy advocate Jimmy Lai was a child stowaway from mainland China who rose to become Hong Kong’s ...

Jimmy Lai, the pro-democracy former Hong Kong media tycoon and a fierce critic of Beijing, was sentenced on Monday to 20 ...

The former girlfriend and confidante of Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, is declining to answer House Oversight Committee ...

Police officers stand guard outside the West Kowloon Law Courts Building in Sham Shui Po before the verdict for media mogul Jimmy Lai Chee-ying's case for conspiracy to collude with foreign forces was ...