China's 'national security law' was tailored to zero in on someone like Lai, who pushed for democracy, freedom of speech, and government reform.

The Hong Kong High Court’s sentencing of Jimmy Lai, Apple Daily founder and democracy advocate, to 20 years in prison is a devastating blow to media freedom in the city.

Jimmy Lai, the pro-democracy former Hong Kong media tycoon and a fierce critic of Beijing, has been sentenced to 20 years in ...

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.

Hong Kong democracy advocate and former media tycoon Jimmy Lai, who is 78 years old, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison ...

The sentence for the media mogul, along with long prison terms for his editors, shows how Hong Kong enforces Xi Jinping’s red lines with a new severity.

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 ...

Lai was convicted of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces and conspiring with others to publish seditious articles.

HONG KONG -- China critic and media mogul Jimmy Lai has been sentenced to 20 years in prison in Hong Kong for national ...

Dr. Patrick Ho Lam Lai is an Assistant Professor at the Anne and Henry Zarrow School of Social Work at the University of Oklahoma. His research examines how cultural and socioeconomic factors shape ...