{"id":21690,"date":"2020-08-15T09:37:57","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T00:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2020\/aug\/15\/time-is-our-weapon-hong-kong-media-tycoon-jimmy-lai-speaks-after-arrest-video-report"},"modified":"2020-08-15T09:37:57","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T00:37:57","slug":"time-is-our-weapon-hong-kong-media-tycoon-jimmy-lai-speaks-after-arrest-video-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21690","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Time is our weapon&#8217;: Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai speaks after arrest &ndash; video report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/hong-kong\">Hong Kong<\/a> media tycoon Jimmy Lai has told the Guardian he believes that how authorities handle his case will likely be a &#8216;litmus test&#8217; for the future. The 71-year-old this week became the highest-profile pro-democracy figure so far to have been arrested under Beijing\u2019s national security law, which makes even the mildest forms of activism a crime against China.<\/p>\n<p>Lai was taken into custody for more than 40 hours for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/10\/jimmy-lai-the-hong-kong-pro-democracy-tycoon-who-is-not-afraid-to-take-on-beijing\">on suspicion of committing foreign collusion crimes<\/a>, and conspiracy to defraud. Speaking after being released on bail, he said that &#8216;without fighting, we don\u2019t have hope [of democracy in Hong Kong]. We don\u2019t know when we\u2019ll win, but we\u2019re so sure we\u2019re on the right side of history, and time is on our side&#8217;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/13\/jimmy-lai-says-swift-arrest-points-to-great-disorder-between-hong-kong-and-china-police\">Jimmy Lai says swift arrest points to &#8216;great disorder&#8217; between Hong Kong and China police<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2020\/aug\/15\/time-is-our-weapon-hong-kong-media-tycoon-jimmy-lai-speaks-after-arrest-video-report\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai has told the Guardian he believes that how authorities handle his case will likely be a &#8216;litmus test&#8217; for the future. The 71-year-old this week became the highest-profile pro-democracy figure so far to have been arreste&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1506,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1506"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21690"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21706,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21690\/revisions\/21706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}