March 28, 2024

Jimmy Lai Is Denied Bail on Fraud Charge

And i-Cable, the biggest pay television operator, said this week that it was laying off more than 100 staff members. That group included about 40 journalists, including its entire investigative team known as News Lancet, according to local news reports.

The protests that roiled Hong Kong have largely quieted this year because of social distancing restrictions, aggressive police tactics and the new security law. More than two dozen people have been arrested under the law. Beijing authorized the removal of four pro-democracy lawmakers last month, which prompted the mass resignation of the pro-democracy camp from the Hong Kong legislature.

Ted Hui, one of the lawmakers who resigned in protest, said Thursday from Denmark that he planned to go into exile. Mr. Hui was a frequent presence at the front lines of protests, where he tried to mediate between the police and demonstrators. He faced several criminal charges in Hong Kong over the protests and was one of eight lawmakers arrested last month over a chaotic meeting in May.

“From when the evil national security law took effect until I left the legislature recently, I asked myself at every moment — what can I still do in Hong Kong?” he wrote on Facebook. “I have struggled, hoping to resist in the streets like last year, regardless of criminal liability. I have also tried to stay in a languishing parliament and use what platform I have left to contend with tyranny.”

He wrote that he realized that the only option left open for him was to work from abroad for the cause of Hong Kong’s democracy. Mr. Hui said in a statement to reporters that he planned to soon travel to Britain.

Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/03/world/asia/jimmy-lai-hong-kong.html

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