{"id":51046,"date":"2022-12-10T15:11:21","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T06:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/10\/hong-kong-media-owner-jimmy-lai-jailed-for"},"modified":"2022-12-10T15:11:21","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T06:11:21","slug":"hong-kong-media-owner-jimmy-lai-jailed-for-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51046","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong media owner Jimmy Lai jailed for fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Daily founder, who recently completed sentence over territory\u2019s pro-democracy protests, convicted in contract dispute involving newspaper offices<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong pro-democracy media owner Jimmy Lai received a fresh jail sentence of five years and nine months on Saturday after being found guilty of fraud in a contractual dispute.<\/p>\n<p>Lai, the 75-year-old founder of the now-shuttered Apple Daily newspaper, had recently completed a 20-month jail term resulting from multiple convictions for his part in protests and unauthorised assemblies.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/10\/hong-kong-media-owner-jimmy-lai-jailed-for\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Daily founder, who recently completed sentence over territory\u2019s pro-democracy protests, convicted in contract dispute involving newspaper officesHong Kong pro-democracy media owner Jimmy Lai received a fresh jail sentence of five years and nine m&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":538,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-hong-kong"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51046","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\/538"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51047,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51046\/revisions\/51047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}