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Added on the 11/08/2020 14:00:00 - Copyright : EFE Inglés
Hong Kong, Aug 10 (EFE/EPA).- Hong Kong media mogul and founder of the newspaper Apple Daily Jimmy Lai was arrested Monday at his Hong Kong home for "foreign conspiracy" and "use of seditious words" his closest collaborators reported on social media.(Camera: JEROME FAVRE).SHOT LIST: B-ROLL OF GENERAL VIEW OUTSIDE THE NEXT MEDIA HEADQUARTERS BUILDING IN HONG KONG.
Police vans thought to be carrying Jimmy Lai arrive at a Hong Kong court on Monday, where the pro-democracy media tycoon is set to stand trial. Lai faces internationally condemned national security charges that could send him to jail for life. Lai, 76, founded the now-shuttered Chinese-language tabloid Apple Daily, which often bashed Beijing and supported the huge protest movement that shook Hong Kong in 2019. IMAGES
Images of police and journalists outside the West Kowloon Law Courts Building, where Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai is due to stand trial in the Chinese city on national security charges that could see him jailed for life. IMAGES
Hong Kong, May 17 (EFE/EPA).- Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai and nine other well-known pro-democracy figures pleaded guilty in court on Monday to organizing an unauthorized assembly on China's national day in 2019.In addition to Lai, 73, veteran activist "Long Hair" Leung Kwok-hung, trade union leader Lee Cheuk-yan, lawyer and veteran democrat Albert Ho, convener of Civil Human Rights Front Figo Chan, former district councilor Richard Tsoi, and former lawmakers Cyd Ho, Yeung Sum, Avery Ng and Sin Chung-kai pleaded guilty to the same charge. (Camera: JEROME FAVRE). B-ROLL OF THE NEXT DIGITAL HEADQUARTERS IN HONG KONG.
Hong Kong, Apr 1 (EFE/EPA).- Hong Kong press magnate Jimmy Lai and six other former opposition deputies were found guilty Thursday of organizing and participating in an unauthorized anti-government demonstration. (Camera: JEROME FAVRE). SHOT LIST: A PROTEST OUTSIDE THE WEST KOWLOON COURT BUILDINGS IN HONG KONG, CHINA.