Hong Kong Files Sedition Charge Against Media Tycoon Jimmy Lai

Hong Kong Files Sedition Charge Against Media Tycoon Jimmy Lai
Jimmy Lai arrives at a court in Hong Kong Oct. 15, 2020. Kin Cheung/AP
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Hong Kong prosecutors on Tuesday filed a “seditious publications” charge against Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai, adding to the charges he already faces under Beijing’s draconian national security law for his participation in a Tiananmen vigil in June 2020. 

The additional sedition charge accuses Apple Daily founder Lai, 74, of conspiracy to print, publish, sell, distribute “seditious publications” between April 2019 and June 24, 2021.

Isabel van Brugen
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Isabel van Brugen is an award-winning journalist. She holds a master's in newspaper journalism from City, University of London.
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