{"id":76287,"date":"2026-02-09T11:23:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T02:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/feb\/09\/jimmy-lai-sentencing-hong-kong-court-to-rule-on-pro-democracy-media-mogul-after-conviction-live-updates"},"modified":"2026-02-09T12:01:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T03:01:13","slug":"jimmy-lai-hong-kong-court-sentences-pro-democracy-mogul-to-20-years-in-prison-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76287","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Lai sentencing \u2013 as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This blog is closed<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/09\/jimmy-lai-sentencing-china-hong-kong-pro-democracy-businessman\">Full report: Jimmy Lai  sentenced to 20 years over national security charges<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Following Jimmy Lai\u2019s sentencing, the 78-year old former media mogul smiled and waved at the public gallery, the New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2026\/02\/08\/world\/jimmy-lai-sentenced-hong-kong\">reports.<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2026\/02\/08\/world\/jimmy-lai-sentenced-hong-kong\"> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the outlet, Lai\u2019s wife, Teresa, sat expressionless and had her arms folded. Others weeped in the courtroom.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/feb\/09\/jimmy-lai-sentencing-hong-kong-court-to-rule-on-pro-democracy-media-mogul-after-conviction-live-updates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blog is closedFull report: Jimmy Lai  sentenced to 20 years over national security chargesFollowing Jimmy Lai\u2019s sentencing, the 78-year old former media mogul smiled and waved at the public gallery, the New York Times reports. According to the out&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2435,"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-76287","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\/76287","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\/2435"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76287"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76297,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76287\/revisions\/76297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}