{"id":51177,"date":"2022-12-16T13:10:44","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T04:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/16\/china-v-jimmy-lai-a-tycoon-a-trial-and-the-erosion-of-hong-kongs-rule-of-law"},"modified":"2022-12-16T13:10:44","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T04:10:44","slug":"china-v-jimmy-lai-a-tycoon-a-trial-and-the-erosion-of-hong-kongs-rule-of-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51177","title":{"rendered":"China v Jimmy Lai: a tycoon, a trial and the erosion of Hong Kong\u2019s rule of law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Hong Kong figure has been subjected to a \u2018travesty of justice\u2019 because the Communist party regard his power as a threat, experts believe<\/p>\n<p>Even before his jailing, Jimmy Lai knew he faced a grim future, but insisted on fighting his cause.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout fighting, we don\u2019t have hope. 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,\u201d the founder of the vocal pro-democracy Hong Kong newspaper Apple Daily told the Guardian in August 2020 while on bail, five days after his arrest over allegations of foreign collusion.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/16\/china-v-jimmy-lai-a-tycoon-a-trial-and-the-erosion-of-hong-kongs-rule-of-law\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hong Kong figure has been subjected to a \u2018travesty of justice\u2019 because the Communist party regard his power as a threat, experts believeEven before his jailing, Jimmy Lai knew he faced a grim future, but insisted on fighting his cause.\u201cWithout figh&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":411,"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":[41,50,48,238],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-media"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51177","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\/411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51177"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51189,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51177\/revisions\/51189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}