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Hong Kong court jails Jimmy Lai for 20 years in national security case

February 09, 2026

Hong Kong has sentenced Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai, 78, to 20 years in jail for foreign collusion and seditious publications under the national security law.

Ex-Hong Kong nogul Jimmy Lai avoids longer jail term for now

December 14, 2021

A Hong Kong court sentenced democracy activist Jimmy Lai to 13 months in prison over his role in banned Tiananmen Square vigils last year, although the sentence wont extend his time behind bars.

Hong Kong's Jimmy Lai, Martin Lee found guilty over 2019 protest

FRIDAY, APRIL 02, 2021

Hong Kong's "father of democracy" Martin Lee and media mogul Jimmy Lai were among a group of opposition activists found guilty for attending an unauthorized protest in 2019, in the latest blow to the city's beleaguered opposition.

Hong Kong's top court sends tycoon Jimmy Lai back to jail

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2020

Hong Kong's highest court sent tycoon Jimmy Lai back to jail as he fights national security charges, in a decision that also signaled plans to interpret provisions the Beijing-drafted law used to charge him.

Hong Kong's Jimmy Lai charged with collusion under security law

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2020

Hong Kong media tycoon and prominent pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai is being charged with foreign collusion under the city's sweeping national security law, a move likely to prompt further international criticism of China's political crackdown on the former British colony.

Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai arrested under national security law

TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 2020

HONG KONG - In an operation that spanned more than 12 hours, Hong Kong police on Monday arrested media tycoon and activist Jimmy Lai, his sons and at least seven others and raided his newsroom under a sweeping national security law that China recently imposed on Hong Kong.