{"id":30868,"date":"2021-04-13T13:52:28","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T04:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/13\/jimmy-lai-letter-hong-kong-journalists-before-sentencing"},"modified":"2021-04-13T17:56:45","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T08:56:45","slug":"stand-tall-jimmy-lai-writes-letter-to-hong-kong-journalists-ahead-of-sentencing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30868","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Stand tall\u2019: Jimmy Lai writes letter to Hong Kong journalists ahead of sentencing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Media mogul writes from prison that \u2018freedom of speech is a dangerous job\u2019 but journalists must uphold justice <\/p>\n<p>The Hong Kong media mogul and pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai has told his staff to \u201cstand tall\u201d in a letter from prison, days before being sentenced in two of several cases against him.<\/p>\n<p>Separately on Tuesday, his fellow activist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/profile\/joshua-wong\">Joshua Wong<\/a> was sentenced to a further four months in jail, concluding another of the growing number of trials in a sweeping crackdown.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/13\/jimmy-lai-letter-hong-kong-journalists-before-sentencing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media mogul writes from prison that \u2018freedom of speech is a dangerous job\u2019 but journalists must uphold justice The Hong Kong media mogul and pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai has told his staff to \u201cstand tall\u201d in a letter from prison, days before being &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[41,48,238,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-hong-kong","category-media","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\/30868","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30868"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30886,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30868\/revisions\/30886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}