{"id":75615,"date":"2025-12-15T11:50:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T02:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/dec\/15\/jimmy-lai-verdict-hong-kong-court-national-security-charges-live"},"modified":"2025-12-15T14:29:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T05:29:17","slug":"jimmy-lai-verdict-hong-kong-court-finds-pro-democracy-figure-guilty-of-all-charges-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75615","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong media tycoon convicted \u2013 as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This blog is now closed<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/15\/jimmy-lai-verdict-hong-kong-judges-national-security-charges\">Jimmy Lai verdict: Hong Kong pro-democracy figure convicted of national security offences<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/15\/jimmy-lai-rise-fall-hong-kong-itself\">The rise and fall of Jimmy Lai, whose trajectory mirrored that of Hong Kong itself<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The three high court judges have entered the courtroom and taken their seats.<\/p>\n<p>The hearing is due to begin and Lai has entered the court, news reports are saying, adding that he waved to his family.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/dec\/15\/jimmy-lai-verdict-hong-kong-court-national-security-charges-live\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blog is now closedJimmy Lai verdict: Hong Kong pro-democracy figure convicted of national security offencesThe rise and fall of Jimmy Lai, whose trajectory mirrored that of Hong Kong itselfThe three high court judges have entered the courtroom and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3946,"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":[41,50,48,3034,238,671,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-jimmy-lai","category-media","category-newspapers","category-press-freedom"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75615","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\/3946"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75615"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75622,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75615\/revisions\/75622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}