Jimmy Lai: democracy on trial in Hong Kong

The pro-democracy media tycoon was arrested more than three years ago on national security charges

Photo collage of Jimmy Lai, the Apple Daily News HQ and scenes of pro-democracy protesters
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 Pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai has gone on trial in Hong Kong charged with violating China's draconian National Security Law (NSL). 

The 76-year-old media mogul, known for being one of the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) "most outspoken critics", was arrested in 2020 under a National Security Law (NSL) imposed on Hong Kong by Beijing, said Deutsche Welle

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 Sorcha Bradley is a writer at The Week and a regular on “The Week Unwrapped” podcast. She worked at The Week magazine for a year and a half before taking up her current role with the digital team, where she mostly covers UK current affairs and politics. Before joining The Week, Sorcha worked at slow-news start-up Tortoise Media. She has also written for Sky News, The Sunday Times, the London Evening Standard and Grazia magazine, among other publications. She has a master’s in newspaper journalism from City, University of London, where she specialised in political journalism.