{"id":66173,"date":"2024-08-12T13:14:30","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T04:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/12\/jimmy-lai-democracy-advocate-hong-kong-court-rejects-appeal"},"modified":"2024-08-12T13:14:30","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T04:14:30","slug":"hong-kong-court-rejects-jimmy-lai-appeal-against-conviction-over-2019-pro-democracy-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66173","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong court rejects Jimmy Lai appeal against conviction over 2019 pro-democracy protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Media tycoon and six others had been found guilty of taking part in unauthorised assembly in one of year\u2019s biggest demonstrations in city<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong\u2019s top court on Monday unanimously dismissed the bid to overturn the convictions of media mogul Jimmy Lai and six other pro-democracy campaigners for an unauthorised assembly in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Lai, 76, the <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\">founder of the pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily<\/a>, and six others including veteran democracy campaigner Martin Lee, had been found guilty of organising and participating in an unauthorised assembly in August 2019 during months-long pro-democracy protests in the China-ruled city.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/12\/jimmy-lai-democracy-advocate-hong-kong-court-rejects-appeal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media tycoon and six others had been found guilty of taking part in unauthorised assembly in one of year\u2019s biggest demonstrations in cityHong Kong\u2019s top court on Monday unanimously dismissed the bid to overturn the convictions of media mogul Jimmy Lai &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":492,"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":[41,50,48,3034],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-jimmy-lai"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66173","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\/492"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66174,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66173\/revisions\/66174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}