Hong Kong media magnate and Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai has been sentenced to five years and nine months imprisonment on December 10 for breaching the former news publication’s lease agreement. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemns the ongoing legal harassment of Jimmy Lai and former Apple Daily staff and urges the Hong Kong and Chinese authorities to overturn the conviction immediately.
HONG KONG, Dec 10 ― Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai received a fresh jail sentence of five years and nine months today after being found guilty of fraud in a.
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HONG KONG – Pro-democracy Hong Kong tycoon Jimmy Lai was sentenced on Saturday (Dec 10) to five years and nine months in prison for fraud, convicted of violating a lease contract for the headquarters of a liberal newspaper he used to run. Lai, 75, was found guilty of two counts of fraud for covering up the operations of a private.