{"id":22382,"date":"2020-09-03T19:30:56","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T10:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/03\/hong-kong-court-acquits-media-mogul-jimmy-lai-of-intimidation"},"modified":"2020-09-03T19:30:56","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T10:30:56","slug":"hong-kong-court-acquits-media-mogul-jimmy-lai-of-intimidation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22382","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong court acquits media mogul Jimmy Lai of intimidation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Magistrate finds no evidence pro-democracy tycoon tried to instil fear in reporter from rival paper<\/p>\n<p>The Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been cleared of criminal intimidation charges dating from 2017, bringing to a close one of several cases against him.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday Lai, who has been arrested multiple times this year mostly in relation to pro-democracy activities, was acquitted of intimidating a reporter from the pro-Beijing Oriental Daily, a rival newspaper to his pro-democracy tabloid Apple Daily, during a 2017 vigil to mark the 4 June 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/03\/hong-kong-court-acquits-media-mogul-jimmy-lai-of-intimidation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magistrate finds no evidence pro-democracy tycoon tried to instil fear in reporter from rival paperThe Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been cleared of criminal intimidation charges dating from 2017, bringing to a close one of several cases against&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"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":[41,50,48,86,238,54,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-law","category-media","category-press-freedom","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\/22382","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\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22383,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22382\/revisions\/22383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}