Former Hong Kong media tycoon sentenced to decades in prison

前香港传媒大亨被判入狱数十年

Newshour

2026-02-09

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Jimmy Lai, a pro-democracy media tycoon in Hong Kong, has been jailed for 20 years for colluding with foreign forces under the city's controversial national security law. Rights groups called it a death sentence for the 78-year-old, whose family has raised concerns about his health, but Hong Kong's leader said it was "deeply gratifying". We'll hear from Mr Lai's son about his father's situation. Also in the programme: We'll be reflecting on a historic election victory for the Japanese prime minister Sanae Takaichi with a member of the governing Liberal Democratic Party; how the DNA of identical twinas is complicating a murder trial in France; and we'll get the reaction to last night's half-time Superbowl show by the Puerto Rican artist Bad Bunny, which has been criticised by President Trump. (Photo shows Jimmy Lai walking to a prison van to head to court in Hong Kong, China on 12 December 2020. Credit: Tyrone Siu/Reuters/File Photo]
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  • has denounced him as a traitor, a man who, in their words,

  • used his newspaper Apple Daily to poison the minds of his citizens.

  • This was the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman, Lin Jian, today.

  • Jimmy Lai was a major planner and participant in a series of anti-China destabilizing activities in Hong Kong.

  • His actions have severely undermined the bottom line of the principle of one country,

  • two systems, seriously endangered national security,

  • and gravely harmed Hong Kong's prosperity and stability,

  • as well as the well-being of its residents, and thus must be severely punished by law.

  • Mr Lai, who's 78, had already been held in prison for five years,