{"id":60583,"date":"2023-12-17T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2023-12-17T01:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/17\/jimmy-lai-trial-begins-hong-kong"},"modified":"2023-12-17T10:00:12","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T01:00:12","slug":"world-watches-as-landmark-jimmy-lai-trial-set-to-begin-in-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60583","title":{"rendered":"World watches as landmark Jimmy Lai trial set to begin in Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Territory\u2019s global reputation on the line as media mogul and democracy activist finally tried over alleged national security crimes<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong\u2019s global reputation will be tested this week when the long-delayed trial of the pro-democracy activist and former media mogul <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/16\/jimmy-lai-editors-from-around-the-world-call-for-release-of-hong-kong-media-mogul\">Jimmy Lai<\/a> gets under way.<\/p>\n<p>Lai, who turned 76 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/30\/jimmy-lai-hong-kong-mogul-activist-and-now-a-prisoner-for-1000-days\">in jail<\/a> this month, is charged with colluding with foreign forces under the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/30\/controversial-hong-kong-national-security-law-comes-into-effect\">national security law<\/a>, as well as sedition. If convicted, which experts say is highly likely, the British national faces spending the rest of his life in prison.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/17\/jimmy-lai-trial-begins-hong-kong\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Territory\u2019s global reputation on the line as media mogul and democracy activist finally tried over alleged national security crimesHong Kong\u2019s global reputation will be tested this week when the long-delayed trial of the pro-democracy activist and form&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3580,"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":[41,6,50,2211,48,3034,238,671,4,54,80,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-china","category-david-cameron","category-hong-kong","category-jimmy-lai","category-media","category-newspapers","category-politics","category-press-freedom","category-protest","category-uk-news","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\/60583","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\/3580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60584,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60583\/revisions\/60584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}