{"id":76622,"date":"2026-03-06T13:09:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T04:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/06\/jimmy-lai-will-not-appeal-conviction-paving-way-for-political-neogtiations-over-release"},"modified":"2026-03-06T13:09:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T04:09:47","slug":"jimmy-lai-will-not-appeal-conviction-paving-way-for-political-negotiations-over-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76622","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Lai will not appeal conviction, paving way for political negotiations over release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Decision marks end of years-long legal saga for 78-year-old critic of Chinese Communist party<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Lai, the prominent pro-democracy activist who was<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/09\/jimmy-lai-sentencing-china-hong-kong-pro-democracy-businessman\"> recently sentenced to 20 years in prison<\/a> in Hong Kong, has said he will not appeal his conviction.<\/p>\n<p>The decision marks the end of a years-long legal saga for the 78-year-old critic of the Chinese Communist party (CCP), and opens the door for political negotiations to his release.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/06\/jimmy-lai-will-not-appeal-conviction-paving-way-for-political-neogtiations-over-release\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decision marks end of years-long legal saga for 78-year-old critic of Chinese Communist partyJimmy Lai, the prominent pro-democracy activist who was recently sentenced to 20 years in prison in Hong Kong, has said he will not appeal his conviction.The d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5205,"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":[41,50,48,3034,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-jimmy-lai","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\/76622","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\/5205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76623,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76622\/revisions\/76623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}