Donald Trump has said he wants Chinese leader Xi Jinping to release Jimmy Lai as he voiced sadness over the Hong Kong media mogul’s conviction on national security charges. “I feel so badly. I spoke to President Xi about it, and I asked to consider his release,” Trump told reporters on Monday, without specifying when he asked Xi. “He’s an older man, and he’s not well. So I did put that request out. We’ll see what happens.” The US president had said before he returned to the White House that…
the Hong Kong Globe
Governments, institutions and rights groups across the world have condemned the conviction of the former pro-democracy media tycoon and British citizen Jimmy Lai in Hong Kong on national security charges. The 78-year-old was found guilty in West Kowloon district court on Monday of one count of conspiracy to publish seditious publications and two counts of conspiracy to foreign collusion. The charges were brought under the city’s punitive national security law , introduced in 2020, and a British colonial-era sedition law that has been used in recent years by authorities. Lai…
The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government has strongly opposed malicious attacks, false statements, and smears against the city by the United States and Western countries, anti-China media, organizations, and politicians, following the court ruling in media tycoon Jimmy Lai Chee-ying’s case. The biased statements and malicious smears from external forces totally disregarded the rule of law and “precisely reflect that the national security risks we face are real,” a government spokesman said in a statement on Tuesday morning. The city’s High Court on Monday found Lai, founder of the…