{"id":75617,"date":"2025-12-15T11:46:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T02:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/15\/jimmy-lai-verdict-hong-kong-judges-national-security-charges"},"modified":"2025-12-15T21:18:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T12:18:35","slug":"jimmy-lai-verdict-hong-kong-pro-democracy-figure-convicted-of-national-security-offences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75617","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong: Jimmy Lai facing life in prison after conviction on security charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rights groups dismiss \u2018sham conviction\u2019 of media tycoon on national security offences in city\u2019s most closely watched rulings in decades<\/p>\n<ul>\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>Jimmy Lai, the Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon, is facing life in prison after being found guilty of national security and sedition offences, in one of the most closely watched rulings since the city\u2019s return to Chinese rule in 1997.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after the ruling was delivered, rights and press groups decried the verdict as a \u201csham conviction\u201d and an attack on press freedom.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/15\/jimmy-lai-verdict-hong-kong-judges-national-security-charges\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rights groups dismiss \u2018sham conviction\u2019 of media tycoon on national security offences in city\u2019s most closely watched rulings in decadesThe rise and fall of Jimmy Lai, whose trajectory mirrored that of Hong Kong itselfJimmy Lai, the Hong Kong pro-democr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4953,"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":[41,50,48,3034,669,238,671,672,54,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-jimmy-lai","category-journalist-safety","category-media","category-newspapers","category-newspapers-magazines","category-press-freedom","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\/75617","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\/4953"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75617"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75627,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75617\/revisions\/75627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}